Quotes about Love
Make me a channel of Thy peace, that where there is hatred, let me sow love, or at least not fertilize the hate with my dainty bullshit.
— Anne Lamott
Love and goodness and the world's beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope.
— Anne Lamott
I would rarely be in conformity with the Divine's huge, crazy love so I just prayed, Help me start walking in your general direction, and the greatest prayer, Help me not be such an asshole.
— Anne Lamott
Take care of yourselves; take care of one another.
— Anne Lamott
Rilke wrote: "I am not saying that we should love death, but rather that we should love life so generously, without picking and choosing, that we automatically include it (life's other half) in our love. This is what actually happens in the great expansiveness of love, which cannot be stopped or constricted. It is only because we exclude it that death becomes more and more foreign to us and
— Anne Lamott
Love has bridged the high-rises of despair we were about to fall between. Love has been a penlight in the blackest, bleakest nights. Love has been a wild animal, a poultice, a dinghy, a coat. Love is why we have hope.
— Anne Lamott
God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.
— Anne Lamott
Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on God.
— Anne Lamott
The good news is that God has such low standards, and reaches out to those of us who are often not lovable and offers us a chance to come back in from the storm of drama and toxic thoughts.
— Anne Lamott
God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence
— Anne Lamott
Who knows, maybe those two rogue leaders, Gandhi and Jesus, were right—a loving response changes the people who would beat the shit out of you, including yourself, of course. Their way, of the heart, makes everything bigger. Decency and goodness are subversively folded into the craziness, like caramel ribbons into ice cream. Otherwise, it's about me, and my bile ducts, and how unique I am and how I've suffered. And that is what hell is like.
— Anne Lamott
The last word will not be our bad thoughts and behavior, but mercy, love, and forgiveness.
— Anne Lamott