Anne Lamott Quotes

When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I pray every day. In the mornings and, before I go to bed. I think it's important to pray not just when things are going bad. When things are going bad, it's easy to pray and ask God to help you out, but it's also important to pray when things are going well and show your appreciation.

I grew up in a family that always believed in God. And I feel like, every morning when you wake up, you have to thank Him just for another day. I do it every day.

Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.

I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.