Quotes from Anne Lamott
If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
- Anne Lamott
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
- Anne Lamott
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
- Anne Lamott
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
- Anne Lamott
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
- Anne Lamott
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.
- Anne Lamott
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
- Anne Lamott
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
- Anne Lamott
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
- Anne Lamott
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
- Anne Lamott
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
- Anne Lamott
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
- Anne Lamott