Anne Lamott Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Grief, Believe

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

• Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

  Anne Lamott

  Change, Secret, Church

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

• Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Teenager, People

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.196, Penguin

• Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Car, Church

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

• I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

  Anne Lamott

  Sunday, Filling Up, Church

• I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Glasses, Smell

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Anchor

• I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

  Anne Lamott

  Grandparent, Church, Sometimes

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Anchor

• My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Atheist, Years

• I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Successful, Support

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