Grace Quotes by Anne Lamott

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

— Anne Lamott

“God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.”

— Anne Lamott

Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.

— Anne Lamott

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

— Anne Lamott

“Grace is having a commitment to- or acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish.”

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

— Anne Lamott

“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on…

— Anne Lamott

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us…

— Anne Lamott

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not…

— Anne Lamott

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

— Anne Lamott

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that…

— Anne Lamott

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there…

— Anne Lamott

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival.…

— Anne Lamott

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you…

— Anne Lamott

Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the…

— Anne Lamott

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others…

— Anne Lamott

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

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or…

— Anne Lamott

“The review in the newspaper the next day was not very good. But by then I'd figured out the gift of failure,…

— Anne Lamott

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short…

— Anne Lamott

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

— Anne Lamott