Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTTGrace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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No is a complete sentence.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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