Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God "God": "Because when you see something so great,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — 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
