Anne Lamott is an American teacher, speaker, and author of numerous novels and nonfiction books. Her writings and teachings cover subjects such as faith, Christianity, and sobriety.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.