Anne Lamott - Grace Quotes

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I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott
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.

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Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

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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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Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

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Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

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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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The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

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