Christian And Poetry Quotes

#1. Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.

Christian Wiman

#2. How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?

Christian Wiman

#3. From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry.
Calvin fell to his knees.
"No," Mrs. Whatsit said, though her voice was not Mrs. Whatsit's voice. "Not to me Calvin. Never to me. Stand up.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

Anthony Browne

#5. I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

Alysia Harris

#6. I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.

Christian Wiman

#7. Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!

James Redfield

#8. One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal.

Michelle Hunziker

#9. Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.

Christian Wiman

#10. If you don't like my poetry and quotes and your a Christian forgive me if you're an Atheist ignore me

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ...

Muse

#12. In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

Ally Condie

#13. And when I was born, I drew in common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."

by Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Steven J. Jacobson

#14. At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.

Christian Wiman

#15. We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. Logic, when applied to people, fails miserably!

Joseph J. Breunig 3rd

#17. Your job is to abide in my pasture
Eating sweet grass and drinking pure water,
And sharing both with others -
That is a lamb's business.

Jessica Coupe

#18. Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.

Deborah Brodie

#19. Hope is the best defense against all injustice.

Balan Gothandaraman

#20. The recurring lovesickness of my teenage years often brought debilitating side effects, the worst of these being a compulsion to write Christian poetry.

Matthew Pierce

#21. I'm going to love Lily how I want to love her.
Overwhelmingly, uncompromisingly.
Look away if you have to.

Krista Ritchie

#22. It is something to have gazed on the constellated white,
felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love.
It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous
in the only ways we know how.

Bryana Johnson

#23. Put it down," Ceony said. Clearing her throat, she repeated, "Put it down or I'll shoot you, I swear I will. I'm taking this heart back with me."
Lira's face turned to a scowl so gradually Ceony hardly saw it change. "I'm not letting some ginger tart take what's rightfully mine.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#24. When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

Jonathan Stroud

#25. I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

Kevin Hart

#26. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.

Christian Wiman

#27. Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Christian Louboutin

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

Christian Wiman

#29. What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.

Deborah Brodie

#30. The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. Although you be, as I am, one of those
Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose,
For poetry is magic: born in sin, you
May read it to exorcies the Gentile in you.

W. H. Auden

#32. The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

Rick Heinrichs

#33. Forgiveness is the attribute of the stong.

J. Sterling

#34. I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.

John Cornwell

#35. HONESTLY ... I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people.
HONESTY ... will help you grow and it shows maturity.
HONEST ... people will push you closer towards your destiny.

Takina Cupp

#36. Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.

Tracey L. Moore

#37. A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Christian Morgenstern