Anne Lamott Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Anne Lamott quotes, Anne Lamott sayings, and Anne Lamott proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Certainty is missing the point entirely. Anne Lamott
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Anne Lamott
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers. Anne Lamott
Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. Anne Lamott
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. Anne Lamott
Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up. Anne Lamott
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared. Anne Lamott
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. Anne Lamott
There really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. Anne Lamott
A grandchild is like a fine jewel set in an old ring. Anne Lamott
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including YOU. Anne Lamott
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. Anne Lamott
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter, Joan of Arc in sunscreen. Anne Lamott
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. Anne Lamott
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. Anne Lamott
Grace in the theological sense is that force that infuses our lives, that keeps letting us off the hook. Anne Lamott
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are startled and embarassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there. Anne Lamott
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town. Anne Lamott
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm? Anne Lamott
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Gratitude is peace. Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…Including you. Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you. Anne Lamott
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started. Anne Lamott
Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you. Anne Lamott