19 Quotes by Anne Lamott about God



  • Author Anne Lamott
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    ...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

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    We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take.

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    When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

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    Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

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    I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

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