... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...I've gotten endless signs of the greatness of God's love and hilarious care, but I always end up needing a newer sign,… — 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
“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — 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
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. — 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
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.” — 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
