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Christian Wiman quotes: If Christianity is going to mean anything at all for us now, then the humanity of God cannot be a half measure.

If Christianity is going to mean anything at all for us now, then the humanity of God cannot be a half measure.

Christian Wiman quotes: Friend once told me that she could wake up a Christian

Friend once told me that she could wake up a Christian

Christian Wiman quotes: To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

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

Christian Wiman quotes: God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

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

Christian Wiman quotes: I honestly don't know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I honestly don't know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

Christian Wiman quotes: It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

Christian Wiman quotes: For I am come a whirlwind of wasted thingsand I will ride this tantrum back to God

For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things
and I will ride this tantrum back to God

Christian Wiman quotes: Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Christian Wiman quotes: I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

Christian Wiman quotes: Heaven is precision.

Heaven is precision.

Christian Wiman quotes: How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?

How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?

Christian Wiman quotes: And still: some who cry the name of Christ Live more remote from love Than some who cry to a void they cannot name.

And still: some who cry the name of Christ Live more remote from love Than some who cry to a void they cannot name.

Christian Wiman quotes: I loaf and invite my soul.

I loaf and invite my soul.

Christian Wiman quotes: Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Christian Wiman quotes: One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

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

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

Christian Wiman quotes: Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

Christian Wiman quotes: So long as your ambition is to stamp your existence upon existence, your nature on nature, then your ambition is corrupt and you are pursuing a ghost.

So long as your ambition is to stamp your existence upon existence, your nature on nature, then your ambition is corrupt and you are pursuing a ghost.

Christian Wiman quotes: Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

Christian Wiman quotes: Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.

Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.

Christian Wiman quotes: Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

Christian Wiman quotes: All love abhors habit.

All love abhors habit.

Christian Wiman quotes: Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Christian Wiman quotes: Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.