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

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Christian Wiman

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

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Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moment of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.

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

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

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There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

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