...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 slave…

- Sheldon Vanauken

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 growl, he knows damn well it'…

- Sheldon Vanauken

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

- Sheldon Vanauken

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

- Sheldon Vanauken

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

- Sheldon Vanauken

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

- 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 unlock…

- Sheldon Vanauken

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the ot…

- Sheldon Vanauken

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

- Sheldon Vanauken