“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians--when they are sombre and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“At my father's club, sitting before the fire, we had spoken of 'moments made eternity', meaning what are called timeless moments, moments precisely without… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“You have been treated with a severe mercy. You have been brought to see (how true & how v. frequent this is!) that you… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of the enormous… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“When we first fell in love in the dead of winter, we said, "If we aren't more in love in lilactime, we shall be… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse,… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.” — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
