…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 considerable distance. I didn’t want to be thinking of Him. I wanted to be free—like Gypsy.… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it… — 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
