Anne Lamott Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Prayer, Water

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor

• Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

  Anne Lamott

  Wings, Water, Grace

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

• I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

  Anne Lamott

  Glasses, People, Water

  Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.12, Penguin

• 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

• You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Writing, Filling Up

• I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Water, Trying

• There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Running, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.204, Anchor

• Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.

  Anne Lamott

  Confused, Writing, Knowing

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