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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy QUOTES

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy QUOTES

1 " Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain the pond, that hold our own inside person, is something that can't be destroyed, a foundation that keeps all the water from sinking back into the earth. Something is there, something we need, when we come to rest, when all is lost. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

2 " The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of valued possessions with gold leaf, which says: We dishonor it if we pretend that it hadn't gotten broken. It says: We value this enough to repair it. So it is not denial or a cover-up. It is the opposite, an adornment of the break with gold leaf, which draws the cracks into greater prominence. The gold leaf becomes part of its beauty. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

3 " Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

4 " Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

5 " Mercy means compassion, empathy, a heart for someone’s troubles. It’s not something you do – it is something in you, accessed, revealed, or cultivated through use, like a muscle. We find it in the most unlikely places, never where we first look. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

6 " Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been graced with a few people. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

7 " do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don’t get what you want? Even when nothing makes sense? "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

8 " I love to be, and so often am, right. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

9 " 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 , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

10 " As well as we know our grown children and relatives, we don't know how much energy they have to put into simply keeping their lives together at all. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

11 " Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

12 " God makes a way out of no way. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

13 " During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up people like us, with tangled lives and minds, find their hearts opening through quiet focus. In unfolding, we are enfolded, and there is a melding of spirits, a melding of times, eternal, yesterday morning, the now, the ancient, even as we meet beneath a digital clock on the wall, flipping its numbers, keeping ordinary time in all that timelessness. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

14 " Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

15 " Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. Do you want this, or do you want to be right? Well, can I get back to you on that? I "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

16 " The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We offer it to ourselves when we work, rest, meditate, bike, read. When we hike by ourselves, we hear a silence still pristine with crunching leaves and birdsong. Silence can be a system of peace, which is mercy, easily offered to a friend needing quiet, harder when the person is one's own annoying self. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

17 " Pope Francis says the name of God is mercy. Our name was mercy, too, until we put it away to become more productive, more admired and less vulnerable. We tend to forget it's still there. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

18 " ...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

19 " My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

20 " Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be. "

― Anne Lamott , Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy