Sheldon Vanauken

“At my father's club, sitting before the fire, we had spoken of 'moments made eternity', meaning what are called timeless moments, moments…

— Sheldon Vanauken

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

— Sheldon Vanauken

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish…

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“You have been treated with a severe mercy. You have been brought to see (how true & how v. frequent this is!)…

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“I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God…

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“Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of…

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“When we first fell in love in the dead of winter, we said, "If we aren't more in love in lilactime, we…

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A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he…

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But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed…

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Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground…

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“What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.”

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“C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic…

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The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes…

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…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving…

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“That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy…

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“In my old easy-going theism, I had regarded Christianity as a sort of fairy tale; and I had neither accepted nor rejected…

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God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

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“How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We…

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If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

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Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the…

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“Note that life after death, which still seems to you the essential thing, was itself a late revelation. God trained the Hebrews…

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“The "Appeal to Love" was an essential part of the very structure of the Shining Barrier. What it meant was simply this…

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“He had been wont to despise emotions: girls were weak, emotions–tears– were weakness. But this morning he was thinking that being a…

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“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians--when…

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But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I…

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