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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.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
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A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
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The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
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You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
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I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
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There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
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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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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
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Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.
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If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.
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Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
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