Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Distance, Ignorance

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.224, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Past, People, Community

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.88, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Tired, Sunday, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  People, Community, Different

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• The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Community, Pieces, Losing

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• To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Community, Church, Knows

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• I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Memories, Real, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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