I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. — Christian Wiman Fall Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals and artists concerned with faith tend to underestimate the radical, inviolable innocence it requires. We read and read, write long, elaborate… — Christian Wiman Art Copy Share Image
We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations. — Christian Wiman Conform Copy Share Image
“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives… — Christian Wiman Poetry Copy Share Image
To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence. — Christian Wiman Alive Copy Share Image
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out,… — Christian Wiman Absolutes Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman American poetry Copy Share Image
“How many loves fail because, in an unconscious effort to make our weaknesses more strong, we link with others precisely at those… — Christian Wiman Love Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing how sometimes merely to talk honestly of God, even if it is only to articulate our feelings… — Christian Wiman Christianity Copy Share Image
“Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason,… — Christian Wiman Faith Copy Share Image
“part of my enjoyment of life had always been an unconscious assumption of its continuity. Not necessarily a continuity of reality itself—the… — Christian Wiman Life Copy Share Image
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity… — Christian Wiman Art Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that… — Christian Wiman Ambition Copy Share Image
“It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished… — Christian Wiman Creativity Copy Share Image
“The spiritual efficacy of all encounters is determined by the amount of personal ego that is in play. If two people meet… — Christian Wiman Human love Copy Share Image
Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain. — Christian Wiman Brain Copy Share Image
“For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things and I will ride this tantrum back to God” — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Culture Copy Share Image
Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that… — Christian Wiman Able Copy Share Image
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure… — Christian Wiman Creativity Copy Share Image
“Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. Two human… — Christian Wiman Jesus christ Copy Share Image
Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms. — Christian Wiman Faith Copy Share Image
