"God is a novelist. He uses all sorts……" — 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 foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough."
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15 Quotes by Lauren F. Winner
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In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.
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My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.
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Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled…
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Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues…
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I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
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