Anne Lamott Quotes

I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

God looks after drunks, children and Americans.

I'm not the most religous person in the world, but I think the good Lord up there has blessed me.

I thank God for blessing me with the tools that he blessed me with to be where I am.

We feel we are blessed by God. We have happy lives.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?

Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

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