Joy Davidman

“I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.”

— Joy Davidman

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

— Joy Davidman

Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver…

— Joy Davidman

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

— Joy Davidman

“See yourself in the mirror, you're separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you're separate from the world. I don't…

— Joy Davidman

“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.”

— Joy Davidman

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I…

— Joy Davidman

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

— Joy Davidman

Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless…

— Joy Davidman

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

— Joy Davidman

“The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no…

— Joy Davidman

“What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the…

— Joy Davidman

Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept…

— Joy Davidman