"It is, I think, that we are all……" — Sheldon Vanauken
"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 is the same with others."
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Sheldon Vanauken
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18 Quotes by Sheldon Vanauken
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Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.
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But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a…
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God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.
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Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it.…
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It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.
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But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear…
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