Christian Wiman Quotes

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 Conscious Life. I Lived Not Without God, Nor Wish His Absence, But In A Mild Abeyance Of Belief, Drifting Through The Days On A Tide Of Tiny Vanities - A Publication, A Flirtation, A Strong Case Made For Some Weak Nihilism - Nights All Adagios And Alcohol As My Mind Tore Luxuriously Into Itself. I Can See Now How Deeply God's Absence Affected My Unconscious Life, How Under Me Always There Was This Long Fall That Pride And Fear And Self-live At Once Protected Me From And Subjected Me To. Was The Fall Into Belief Or Into Unbelief? Both. For If Grace Woke Me To God's Presence In The World And In My Heart, It Also Woke Me To His Absence. I Never Truly Felt The Pain Of Unbelief Until I Began To Believe.

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

Christian Wiman Quotes: When I Think Of The Years When I Had No Faith, What I Am Struck By, First Of All, Is

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