“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 things that God wants you to do, because you want to be close to Him.” — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Being born a human was not the first time God made Himself small so that we could have access to Him. First He shrunk Himself when He revealed the Torah at Mount Sinai. He shrunk Himself into tiny Hebrew words,… — 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 growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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