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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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