Christian Wiman

Quotes

• “Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a form and ...”
• “You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including w...”
• “The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering...”
• “It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and st...”
• “Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man....”
• “What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with t...”
• “Christ is not alive now because he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He rose from the dead two thousand years a...”