"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.
~ Anne Lamott ~
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God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.
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"The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or s...
"We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
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"My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don't like ...
"Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and...
"A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I...
"We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them,...
"Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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