God Quote by Anne Lamott — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

“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.”

“Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

“I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?”

“The Lord is God.”

“How, like a god, she said she loved us but hurt us.”

“As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life and God met us there. Those moments were necessary for us to arrive here, at this place at this time, as we are. Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.”

“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's.”