Intellectual Climate Quotes by Christian Wiman

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Christian Wiman has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.
• Art is so often better at theology than theology is.
• Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.
• What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent…
• I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence…
• Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.
• Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give…
• There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an…
• One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at…
• At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with…
• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that…
• One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

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