Anne Lamott Quotes

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.