Anne Lamott Quotes

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

We don't get to decide who God is.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.