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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.

Anne Lamott

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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Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Goodness Grace Life Management
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’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
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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Earth Light Myself Present Sun
If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Comfortable Death Safety Stay
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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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself

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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