I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. — Anne Lamott Catholic Copy Share Image
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you. — Anne Lamott Funny Copy Share Image
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur. — Anne Lamott Blessing Copy Share Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Funny Copy Share Image
“Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.” — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. — Anne Lamott Church Copy Share Image
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Life lessons Copy Share Image
If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the… — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent… — Anne Lamott Being a parent Copy Share Image
“God gives us Her own self. Left to my own devices, I would prefer answers. This is why it is good that… — Anne Lamott Self Copy Share Image
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott America Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Arabia Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of… — Anne Lamott Dark Copy Share Image
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have… — Anne Lamott Breeze Copy Share Image
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion.” — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image