The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work… — 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
A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle,… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
