Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — 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 Copy Share Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out… — 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 what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
