Anne Lamott Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• 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

• Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Numbness, Next Day

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Anchor

• I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Dark, Silver Bells

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.43, Penguin

• If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

  Anne Lamott

  Uplifting, Ocean, Blessing

• Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Believe, Mean

  Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.7, Penguin

• We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]

  Anne Lamott

  Cancer, Silence, Comfort

• I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

  Anne Lamott

  Opportunity, Silence, Needs

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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