Anne Lamott Quotes

No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

If you're happy, you've got the Lord on your side.

If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.