Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. — 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
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel… — 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
Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching… — 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
“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily… — 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
“During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I have become more successful in my forties, but that pales in comparison with the other gifts of my current decade --… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the… — 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
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe… — 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 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
“Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more… — 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
