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“Effective people are busy people. Religious people are busy people. For millions and millions of people, busy-ness is The Way of Life. “How are you?” “Busy like crazy, but what else is new? And you?” Some busy people cannot even tell the difference between relaxation and narcolepsy, because the minute they sit down in a quiet place alone, they nod off.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, The Practice of Saying No: A HarperOne Select – A Spiritual Reflection on Sabbath-Keeping and Finding the Sacred in Everyday Life

“Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish—separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two. Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

“To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.”
― Rachel Held Evans