Anne Lamott Quotes

You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

It's daylight, the sky is cloudy, and human beings believe that beyond the clouds lives an all-powerful God, guiding the fate of men. Meanwhile, look at your son, look at your feet, listen to the sounds around you: down here is the Mother, so much closer, bringing joy to children and energy to those who walk over her body. Why do people prefer to believe in something far away and forget what is there before their eyes, a true manifestation of the miracle?

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam": "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

Can I believe in that God too?

God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.