Anne Sexton Quotes

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

God to me is love.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

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.

Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

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

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.