“He had been wont to despise emotions: girls were weak, emotions–tears– were weakness. But this morning he was thinking that being a great brain in a tower, nothing but brain, wouldn’t be much fun. No excitement, no dog to love,… — 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 the pressure of time--moments that might be called, indeed, timeful moments. And we had clearly understood that the pressure of time was our nearly inescapable awareness of an approaching terminus-the bell about to ring, the holiday… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share
...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 not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share
