Quotes by : Christian Wiman

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this....

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s....

And I Said To My Soul, Be LoudMadden me back to an afternoonI carry in menot like a woundbut like a will....

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it....

We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they....

You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another,....

Christ is not alive now because he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He rose from the dead two....

Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and....

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but....

What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that....