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.
ANNE LAMOTTI’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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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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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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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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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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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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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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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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No is a complete sentence.
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