Anne Lamott Quotes

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him. I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.