And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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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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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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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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