“Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. "Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable.” — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“...but that is how the clues God leaves sometimes work. Sometimes nothing comes of them. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“No, no, I'm not one of them. I'm one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear fishnet stockings… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can't possess Him, or… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“People think Judaism and Christianity are radically different from one another, and that the difference is straightforward. But on Ascension Day, I am struck… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“[T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish--to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
