“The meanings that God calls us to in our lives are never abstract. Though the call may ask us to redefine, or… — Christian Wiman Life Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the… — Christian Wiman Appeals Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman Emotional Copy Share Image
“if he loved his life so much, how could he be happy that it was ending so early? The answer, I think,… — Christian Wiman Death Copy Share Image
“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound… — Christian Wiman Artistry Copy Share Image
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman Backyards Copy Share Image
“Modern spiritual consciousness is predicated upon the fact that God is gone, and spiritual experience, for many of us, amounts mostly to… — Christian Wiman Life Copy Share Image
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us. — Christian Wiman Creativity Copy Share Image
“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as… — Christian Wiman Christianity Copy Share Image
“God speaks to us by speaking through us, and any meaning we arrive at in this life is composed of the irreducible… — Christian Wiman Life Copy Share Image
“The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience… — Christian Wiman Experience Copy Share Image
“What song, what home, what calm or one clarity can I not quite come to, never quite see: this field, this sky,… — Christian Wiman Belonging Copy Share Image
I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation. — Christian Wiman Doe Copy Share Image
“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little… — Christian Wiman Atheism Copy Share Image
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what… — Christian Wiman Add Copy Share Image
