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God Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a…
- This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
- A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if…
- When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration…
- Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us…
- I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be…
- Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
- You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity…
- I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
- I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
- No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
- Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children -…
- I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where…
- God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He…
- I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown…
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
- I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
- They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social…
- I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying…
- Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and…
- When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He…
- The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.
- So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy…
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi