Anne Lamott Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• 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

• Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Thinking, Car

  Anne Lamott (2014). “Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace”, p.74, Penguin

• E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Night, Two

• And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

  Anne Lamott

  Struggle, Car, Drug

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Penguin

• Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Car, Church

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

• When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Real, Kids

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

• I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

  Anne Lamott

  Summer, Rain, Car

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

• Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Believe, Moving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.102, Anchor

• I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

  Anne Lamott

  Beach, Doors, Car

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.6, Penguin

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