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Barbara Brown Taylor

Most of us like thinking we are God's only children. . . At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.

Baptism, Children, Like, Purposes, Remind, Thinking
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Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar

Caesar, Down, Gun, Jesus, Kings, Order

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

Self, Simply, Spiritual, Spring, Use, World

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Church, Churches, Ideas, People, Saving, Sees

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

Altars, Christian, Inspirational, Possibility, Religious, Thick

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Behave, Believe, God, Politics, Say, Toward
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