Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTTDogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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