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.
ANNE LAMOTTWe 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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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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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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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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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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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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No is a complete sentence.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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