30 Quotes by Jen Pollock Michel

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.