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Top 25 Sheldon Vanauken Quotes (2025 Update)

Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “If it’s half as good as the half we’ve known, here’s Hail! to the rest of the road.”

1. “If it’s half as good as the half we’ve known, here’s Hail! to the rest of the road.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “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 very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.”

2. “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 very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.”

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

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “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’s a lion.”

4. “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’s a lion.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.”

5. “God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment – to love God first – nor is it clear that I was obeying the second – to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn’t perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.”

6. “But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment – to love God first – nor is it clear that I was obeying the second – to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn’t perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.”

7. “But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love.”

9. “That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “If there were a choice – and he suspected there was – a choice between, on the one hand, the heights and the depths and, on the other hand, some sort of safe, cautious middle way, he, for one, here and now chose the heights and the depths.”

10. “If there were a choice – and he suspected there was – a choice between, on the one hand, the heights and the depths and, on the other hand, some sort of safe, cautious middle way, he, for one, here and now chose the heights and the depths.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “But I think you are already in the meshes of the net! The Holy Spirit is after you. I doubt if you’ll get away!”

11. “But I think you are already in the meshes of the net! The Holy Spirit is after you. I doubt if you’ll get away!”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “Art is first a seeing and then a revealing.”

12. “Art is first a seeing and then a revealing.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one’s life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.”

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

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.”

15. “To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “The sheer quality of the Christians we met at Oxford shattered our stereotype, and thenceforward a reference in a book or conversation to someone’s being a Christian called up an entirely new image.”

16. “The sheer quality of the Christians we met at Oxford shattered our stereotype, and thenceforward a reference in a book or conversation to someone’s being a Christian called up an entirely new image.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “Those sharings just happened to be; but what we must do now is share everything. Everything! If one of us likes anything, there must be something to like in it – and the other one must find it.”

17. “Those sharings just happened to be; but what we must do now is share everything. Everything! If one of us likes anything, there must be something to like in it – and the other one must find it.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “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 the mind – the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”

18. “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 the mind – the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “The moment was utterly timeless: we didn’t know that time existed; and it contained, therefore, some foretaste, it may be, of eternity.”

19. “The moment was utterly timeless: we didn’t know that time existed; and it contained, therefore, some foretaste, it may be, of eternity.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “The personality of Jesus emerged from the Gospels with astonishing consistency. Whenever they were written, they were written in the shadow of a personality so tremendous that Christians who may never have seen him knew him utterly: that strange mixture of unbearable sternness and heartbreaking tenderness.”

20. “The personality of Jesus emerged from the Gospels with astonishing consistency. Whenever they were written, they were written in the shadow of a personality so tremendous that Christians who may never have seen him knew him utterly: that strange mixture of unbearable sternness and heartbreaking tenderness.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain. Still, he thought, looking out across the meadow, still, the joy would be worth the pain – if, indeed, they went together. If.”

21. “But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain. Still, he thought, looking out across the meadow, still, the joy would be worth the pain – if, indeed, they went together. If.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “Corruption is never compulsory.”

22. “Corruption is never compulsory.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table?”

23. “My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table?”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.”

24. “What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “It’s hard, since Noah, not to see a rainbow as a sign of hope.”

25. “It’s hard, since Noah, not to see a rainbow as a sign of hope.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “Death is no respecter of love.”

26. “Death is no respecter of love.”

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Sheldon Vanauken Quote: “If I must bear it, though, I would bear it – find the whole meaning of it, taste the whole of it.”

27. “If I must bear it, though, I would bear it – find the whole meaning of it, taste the whole of it.”

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