Religion Quotes by Anne Lamott

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

— Anne Lamott

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

— Anne Lamott

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

— Anne Lamott

I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.

— Anne Lamott

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot…

— Anne Lamott

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel…

— Anne Lamott

“Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.”

— Anne Lamott

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

— Anne Lamott

“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching…

— Anne Lamott

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together,…

— Anne Lamott

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe…

— Anne Lamott

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your…

— Anne Lamott

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

“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily…

— Anne Lamott

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is…

— Anne Lamott

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the…

— Anne Lamott

“Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more…

— Anne Lamott

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I…

— Anne Lamott

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered…

— Anne Lamott

“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual…

— Anne Lamott

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

God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how…

— Anne Lamott

“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading…

— Anne Lamott

“I have become more successful in my forties, but that pales in comparison with the other gifts of my current decade --…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Anne Lamott

“[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship…

— Anne Lamott

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just…

— Anne Lamott

“I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to…

— Anne Lamott

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

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness…

— Anne Lamott

I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly,…

— Anne Lamott

“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

“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