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 LAMOTTThe 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 LAMOTTSo a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
ANNE LAMOTTYou are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
ANNE LAMOTTI don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
ANNE LAMOTTI didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
ANNE LAMOTTEveryone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
ANNE LAMOTTFaith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTTButterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTHow do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTTBut grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
ANNE LAMOTTYou 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 LAMOTTHope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
ANNE LAMOTTYou have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
ANNE LAMOTTIf we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
ANNE LAMOTTI can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
ANNE LAMOTT