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 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 uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

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  Religious, Doubt, World

  Lauren F. Winner (2012). “Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Leaving, Novelists, Use

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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• Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

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  Leaving, Sometimes, Clue

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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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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  Doubt, Holy, Restless

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• 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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  Character, Saint, Stories

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• Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

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  Doubt, Not Sure, Ifs

  Lauren F. Winner (2012). “Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.

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  Jesus, Morning, Bored

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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• The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not simply give it to the married people of the church, but to the whole church, just as marriage is designed not only for the benefit of the married couple. It is designed to tell a story to the entire church, a story about God’s own love and fidelity to us

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  Couple, People, Giving

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• 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. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered.

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  Jobs, Children, Hair

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Algonquin Books

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• In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

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  Giving, Sabbath, Imitating

  Lauren F. Winner (2007). “Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

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  Church, Littles, Spirit

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• The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.

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  Christian, Book, Grateful

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• I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

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  Christian, Reading, Annoyed

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• My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Scripture

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• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Grateful, Book, Thinking

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