Anne Lamott Quotes

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.

I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

This is not a fix; it's a prayer.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day