"The adult must seem to mislead the child,……" — Sheldon Vanauken
"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 are so sure you know what the promise promised! And the danger is that when what He means by ‘wind’ appears you will ignore it because it is not what you thought it would be—as He Himself was rejected because He was not like the Messiah the Jews had in mind."
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Sheldon Vanauken
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18 Quotes by Sheldon Vanauken
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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…
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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…
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Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the…
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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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It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This…
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