Death Quote by Christian Wiman

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

— Christian Wiman

“Intellectuals and artists concerned with faith tend to underestimate the radical, inviolable innocence it requires. We read and read, write long, elaborate essays and…

— Christian Wiman

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

— Christian Wiman

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

— Christian Wiman

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

— Christian Wiman

“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the…

— Christian Wiman

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

— Christian Wiman

I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God,…

— Christian Wiman

Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his…

— Christian Wiman

“How many loves fail because, in an unconscious effort to make our weaknesses more strong, we link with others precisely at those points? How…

— Christian Wiman

“It is a strange thing how sometimes merely to talk honestly of God, even if it is only to articulate our feelings of separation…

— Christian Wiman

“Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only…

— Christian Wiman