“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… — 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
The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything.… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
