There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after… — Lauren F. Winner Children Copy Share Image
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. — Lauren F. Winner Giving 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… — 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.… — Lauren F. Winner Doubt 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. — Lauren F. Winner Doubt 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… — Lauren F. Winner Change 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… — 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… — Lauren F. Winner Christianity 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… — Lauren F. Winner God 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… — Lauren F. Winner Christianity 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… — 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… — Lauren F. Winner Alliteration Copy Share Image
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I… — Lauren F. Winner Bored Copy Share Image
“It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done… — Lauren F. Winner Prayer Copy Share Image
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is… — Lauren F. Winner Character Copy Share Image
“And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of… — Lauren F. Winner Belief Copy Share Image
“A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that she wasn't sure she could go through… — Lauren F. Winner Belief Copy Share Image
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little… — Lauren F. Winner Church 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… — Lauren F. Winner First time Copy Share Image
“As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. "Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not… — Lauren F. Winner Answers to prayer Copy Share Image
“In the false American imagination, West Virginia is a joke or else it's a charity case; but more than anything it is… — Lauren F. Winner Creativity Copy Share Image
My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down. — Lauren F. Winner Bible Copy Share Image
“All throughout Torah, we find people looking for God, and not finding God, because God doesn't often conform to our expectations. God… — Lauren F. Winner Around the world Copy Share Image
“I suspect the next 10 years will be years of turmoil and hardship the globe over, and with that will come a… — Lauren F. Winner American-christianity Copy Share Image
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