I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

The tears of God are the meaning of history

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will …

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought th…

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.

- Nicholas Wolterstorff

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

- Nicholas Wolterstorff