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My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
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I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.
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Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.
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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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