Anne Lamott Quotes

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.