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.
ANNE LAMOTTI was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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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 think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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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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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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No is a complete sentence.
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