Sheldon Vanauken Quotes

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• ...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 the…
• 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 lion's…
• Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
• Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.
• But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
• God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.
• Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at…
• Art is first a seeing and then a revealing
• It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.
• Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of…
• But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the…
• It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the…
• The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You…
• …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…
• If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.
• 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…
• Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do.…
• Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our…

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