Quotes from Christian Wiman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

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 respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.