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Christian Wiman
A lyrical meditation on faith, illness, and the search for meaning by a contemporary American poet grappling with cancer diagnosis and spiritual awakening. Wiman explores the tension between poetic truth and rational belief, drawing on personal experience and theological reflection.
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What this book knows
Faith is not relief from suffering but a way of burning more honestly inside it, where language and God meet.
faith-and-doubt
The turn toward God has not lessened my anxieties, and I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.
MBA-RC-008Faith steals upon you like dew: some days you wake and it is there. And like dew, it gets burned off in the rising sun of anxieties, ambitions, distractions.
MBA-RC-061mortality
I wake in the night with a terror that is purer, further than my own… an abyss of pure meaninglessness of which I am merely some small and dreadfully sentient particle.
MBA-RC-105Christ's suffering shatters the iron walls around individual human suffering… Human love can reach right into death, but not if it is merely human love.
MBA-RC-099calling
He went back because, as he had written: 'Only the obedient believe. If we are to believe, we must obey a concrete command.'
MBA-RC-031So long as your ambition is to stamp your existence upon existence, your nature on nature, then your ambition is corrupt and you are pursuing a ghost.
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