Christian 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. If you have a long list of highly-specific titles that you'd like to read, there's no guarantee that the Kindle Unlimited Selection would have all or most of them.

Tim Jones

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

Christian Wiman

#4. 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

#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. 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

#8. 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

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

Muse

#10. Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way.

Rolf Dobelli

#11. 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

#12. A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?

Bill Bailey

#13. 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

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

Joseph J. Breunig 3rd

#15. They [Democrats in Congress] believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.

Glenn Beck

#16. 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

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

Deborah Brodie

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. So much depends upon this observer of the universe

John Green

#21. 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

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

Christian Wiman

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

Christian Louboutin

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

Christian Wiman

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

Deborah Brodie

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Tracey L. Moore

#29. Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

Jonathan Banks

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

Christian Morgenstern

#31. The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

Frank Shamrock