“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.”

—  Anne Lamott

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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