Anne Lamott Quotes

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.