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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Anne Lamott

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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God Need Water Woman Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road Yourself
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right Yourself
I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
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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Action Mistake Thinking Yourself
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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Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
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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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself

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