Nicholas Wolterstorff famous quotes

03-21-2025

I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Tears #World #Dry
God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Suffering #Sorrow #Faces
How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Song #Love Is #Blood
The tears of God are the meaning of history
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Tears
Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Choices #Habit #Backgrounds
Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Walks #Chasms
We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Sight #Tears #Answers
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Character #Soul #Suffering
The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Art #Missing
And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Sorry #Memories #Regret

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