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You can safely assume 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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I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
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It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.
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In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your own nest and say, This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.
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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
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There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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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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If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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She does not have an ounce of fat on her body. I completely hate that in a person. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had our kids.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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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 could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke — the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Anne Lamott
Born:
April 10, 1954
(age 64)
Bio:
Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
Known for:
Bird by Bird (1994)
Traveling Mercies (1999)
Help, Thanks, Wow (2012)
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (2007)
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