Anne Lamott Quotes about Grace

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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

Laughter, Humor, Grace

Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.66, Penguin

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Anne Lamott

Wind, Grace, Want

Anne Lamott (2013). “Thanks: The Second Essential Prayer”, p.7, Hachette UK

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Anne Lamott

Grace, This Life, Owners

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

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

Anne Lamott

Mean, Different Universes, Grace

"Lamott keeps the faith but still hates Bush" by Stephen J. Lyons, www.sfgate.com. March 20, 2005.

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

Anne Lamott

Grateful, Light, Grace

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

Anne Lamott

Children, Pain, Grace