"It is not possible to be 'incidentally a……" — Sheldon Vanauken
"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 dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances."
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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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Art is first a seeing and then a revealing
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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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Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing…
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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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The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and…
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