Anne Lamott Quotes

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

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.

I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.