Sheldon Vanauken Quotes

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...

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...

Sheldon Vanauken

Tags: christian behavior, christianity, religion

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

Sheldon Vanauken

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

Sheldon Vanauken

Tags: christianity, death, faith, grieving

About Author

Sheldon Vanauken (; August 4, 1914 – October 18, 1996) was an American author, best known for his autobiographical book A Severe Mercy (1977), which recounts his and his wife's friendship with C. S. Lewis, their conversion to Christianity, and dealing with tragedy. He published a sequel in 1985 titled Under the Mercy.

C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, w...

Sheldon Vanauken

C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, w...

Sheldon Vanauken

Tags: heaven, time