All Christian Wiman Quotes
- Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us. God
- Art is so often better at theology than theology is. Art
- Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom. All
- What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives… Absence
- I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world,… Able
- Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms. Calls
- Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a… Carve
- There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in… Academia
- One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity… Any
- At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use… Believe
- There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds… Ambition
- One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry. Close
- God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering. Beyond
- I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and… Art
- It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… Abhors
- The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or… Add
- I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my… Absolute
- I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no… Alive
- Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. Across
- I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear… Absence
- To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence. Alive
- I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. Beyond
- Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able… Able