"I am not a saint. I am, however,……" — Lauren F. Winner
"I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God."
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15 Quotes by Lauren F. Winner
Lauren F. Winner has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be…
- Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled…
- The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us…
- God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of…
- The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least…
- In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.
- My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.
- Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight…
- Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled…
- Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues…
- I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
- There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so…
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