What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
ANNE LAMOTTI don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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I 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.
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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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