Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTPrayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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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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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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