49 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

When God made His covenant with Abraham, He promised that He would “make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.” Jesus is the needle who sews the children of God who are not direct descendants of Abraham into that nighttime sky.

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

Fasting is meant to take you, temporarily, out of the realm of the physical and focus your attention heavenward; as one Jewish guide to fasting puts it, ’at the heart of this practice is a desire to shift our attention away from our immediate needs and to focus on more spiritual concerns.

To invite people into our homes is to respond with gratitude to the God who made a home for us.

Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can’t really understand Him. We can’t possess Him, or apprehend Him. Moses learned this when he climbed up Mount Sinai and saw that the radiance of God’s face would burn him up should he gaze upon it directly. But God so wants to be in relationship with us that He makes himself small, smaller than He really is, smaller and more humble than his infinite, perfect self, so that we might be able to get to Him, a little bit.