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> [“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us we’d be better off with pleasure in hell than sanctification in heaven.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/this-is-how-sin-works-it-whispers-to-us-about-the-goodness-of/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

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## More by Lauren F. Winner

> [There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/there-are-a-few-people-out-there-with-whom-you-fit-just-so-and/)

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> [In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/in-observing-the-sabbath-one-is-both-giving-a-gift-to-god-and/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

> [“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/this-is-how-sin-works-it-whispers-to-us-about-the-goodness-of/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

> [Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/some-days-i-am-not-sure-if-my-faith-is-riddled-with-doubt-or-whether/)

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> [Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/some-days-i-am-not-sure-if-my-faith-is-riddled-with-doubt-or-whether-2/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/the-change-i-think-that-conversion-gradually-effects-on-your-heart-is/)

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> [“...but that is how the clues God leaves sometimes work. Sometimes nothing comes of them. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/but-that-is-how-the-clues-god-leaves-sometimes-work-sometimes-nothing/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/no-no-i-m-not-one-of-them-i-m-one-of-you-i-believe-that-jesus-christ/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/here-is-the-thing-about-god-he-is-so-big-and-so-perfect-that-we-can-t/)

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> [“People think Judaism and Christianity are radically different from one another, and that the difference is straightforward. But on Ascension Day, I am struck…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/people-think-judaism-and-christianity-are-radically-different-from/)

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> [ “\[T\]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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/t-hat-finally-is-the-questions-that-is-the-anguish-to-abide-in-god-s/)

[Lauren F. Winner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-f-winner/)

> [God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/god-is-a-novelist-he-uses-all-sorts-of-literary-devices-alliteration/)

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> [The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/the-only-other-person-i-have-fallen-in-love-with-that-way-is-jesus/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/it-is-a-great-gift-when-god-gives-me-a-stirring-a-feeling-a-something/)

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> [I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-f-winner/i-am-not-a-saint-i-am-however-beginning-to-learn-that-i-am-a-small/)

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