A biography for Jen Pollock Michelhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.”
“Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.”
“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.”
“Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.”
“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”