“ I absolutely don't buy into the current mania for tidiness and decluttering. For a writer, piles of papers and notes are a fertile field. Keep all those books you read in college, or had certainly mea… Anne Lamott
“ Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. God… Anne Lamott
“ He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. Anne Lamott
“ God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need. Anne Lamott
“ Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. Anne Lamott
“ Forgiving people doesn’t necessarily mean you want to meet them for lunch. It means you try to undo the Velcro hook. Lewis Smedes said it best: To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that t… Anne Lamott
“ For some of us books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small flat rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world worlds that sing… Anne Lamott
“ Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be. Anne Lamott
“ Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made them spontaneous and immediate could also make them mean...The… Anne Lamott
“ Easter is so profound. Christmas was an afterthought in the early Church, the birth not observed for a couple hundred years. But no one could help noticing the resurrection: Rumi said that spring was… Anne Lamott
“ During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up people like us, with tangled lives and minds, find… Anne Lamott
“ Does sunset sometimes look like the sun is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You’re crying; you say you’ve burned yourself. But can you think of anyone who’s not hazy with smoke? —R… Anne Lamott
“ Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain? Anne Lamott
“ But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. Anne Lamott
“ But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. We find God in our human lives, and that includes the suffering. I get thirsty people glasses of water… Anne Lamott
“ But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also ofte… Anne Lamott
“ And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?You get to be obsessed and angry, Tom said. And they get to be the age they are, and act like teenagers if they want to. There is a ze… Anne Lamott
“ Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we’ve learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most—especially the ones we love most: they’re damaged, prickly and set in their ways. Anne Lamott
