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Turns out, being positive all the time doesn't actually make God give you whatever you want. Even if you REEEEEEEEALLLY want a house, and the bank *halleluia!* approves your adjustable rate mortgage, and you decide to be positive about the future-- y...
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Come on chubby folks, you know what to do. Cut out all that white garbage-- the white sugar, white flour, white potatoes. Dr. Agatston's relatively gentle method, the South Beach diet, helps you wean yourself off of those blood-sugar spiking, diabete...
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So I had to return this book to the library half-read and I enraged the librarian by dog-earing some pages. Okay, most of the pages. And if you get half-way through a book, dog-earing every page and intentionally enraging the famously tetchy libraria...
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I was not the intended audience for this book, and as such I felt like a was reading through a glass darkly. The Christian language was a code-- and I have read the Bible, cover to cover, people! I'm comfortable with scriptural language, dense theolo...
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"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
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"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."
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Anne Lamott
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“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
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“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.”
― Anne Lamott
― Anne Lamott
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor
― Garrison Keillor
“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan
― Michael Pollan
“No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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