Lauren F. Winner

Quotes

• “Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And y...”
• “Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australi...”
• “But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentivenes...”
• “Sometimes I cannot say much about why I go to church other than what people who go to the gym say: I always feel better ...”
• “Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act ...”
• “In the words of Jewish liturgical scholar Lawrence Hoffman, 'Jews do offer freely composed prayers... But overall, it is...”
• “But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what word...”
• “The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the str...”
• “Food is part of God's creating. A right relationship with food points us toward Him.... The table is not only a place wh...”
• “The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to...”
• “Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and...”
• “I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. ...”
• “It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries about sin ...”
• “It turns out there is something worse than attending a wedding where you don't know anyone: attending a wedding where yo...”
• “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...”
• “It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you ...”
• “... I am not the author of my prayers; when they come, they come from God.”