Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

- 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, my God, why hast tho…

- Christian Wiman

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

- Christian Wiman

It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call th…

- Christian Wiman

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

- Christian Wiman

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

- Christian Wiman

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

- Christian Wiman

One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise.…

- Christian Wiman

I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try …

- Christian Wiman