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Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.


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Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.



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Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.



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

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



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

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



We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.



I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.



I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.



I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.



I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.



Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.





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