Anne Lamott Quotes

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

I think people need to realize they're not alone, and that there's hope, and it's running to Jesus.

Who doesn't like salvation?

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

Our very worst days are never beyond the reach of God's grace.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

love is the only thing we have to save us

Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us.

Being A Christian doesn't mean I won't fall... It means Jesus will catch me, when I do.

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

Anything we love can be saved.

Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.