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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith QUOTES

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith QUOTES

1 " Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

2 " It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

3 " 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. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

4 " I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach—but not only do I get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? You bet I would. That is why it’s such a blessing that I’m not left to my own devices. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

5 " Most of us don’t notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights—way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause—and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

6 " When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

7 " I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

8 " Certainty is missing the point entirely. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

9 " A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

10 " Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

11 " Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

12 " Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

13 " First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

14 " The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

15 " I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship—might end up alone! I’d always been terrified of this. But I’d rather not ever be in a couple, or ever get laid again, than be in a toxic relationship. I spent a few years celibate. It was lovely, and it was sometimes lonely. I had surrendered; I’d run out of bullets. I learned to be the person I wished I’d meet, at which point I found a kind, artistic, handsome man. When we get out of bed, we hold our lower backs, like Walter Brennan, and we laugh, and bring each other the Advil. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

16 " Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare... "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

17 " If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

18 " Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can’t short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can’t patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

19 " Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed? "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

20 " It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue. "

― Anne Lamott , Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith