Quotes by Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

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It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compro — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my c — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Just as some of Jesus' first-century followers could not credit the presence of the risen Christ, so our own blindness, — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and st — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Mystical experience needs some form of dogma in order not to dissipate into moments of spiritual intensity that are mere — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Christ is not alive now because he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He rose from the dead two thousand years a — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with t — Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer