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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

Bird by Bird

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.”

“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”

Source: Joe Jones

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

Variant: Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“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.”

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): 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.”

Traveling Mercies; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this to "my priest friend Tom"

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

Variant: You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”

Source: Joe Jones

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

Plan B

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“No" is a complete sentence.”