Anne Lamott Quotes

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

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

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I talk to the universe all the time.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.