This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even… - Anne Lamott

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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

Anne Lamott

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith · February 15, 2000 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

friends love love-conquers second-wind

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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