Sheldon Vanauken





Sheldon Vanauken

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Average rating: 4.31 · 3,292 ratings · 413 reviews · 9 distinct works
A Severe Mercy
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3,083 ratings — published 1979 — 17 editions
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Under the Mercy
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 62 ratings3 editions
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Little Lost Marion:
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1996
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Gateway to Heaven
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Mercies: Collected Poems
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988
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Glittering Illusion
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1989
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Making Sense Out of Suffering
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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The Intellectuals Speak Out...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984
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Converts To Roman Catholici...
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“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.”
Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy

“…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance. I didn’t want to be thinking of Him. I wanted to be free—like Gypsy. I wanted life itself, the color and fire and loveliness of life. And Christ now and then, like a loved poem I could read when I wanted to. I didn’t want us to be swallowed up in God. I wanted holidays from the school of Christ.”
Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy

“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.”
Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy



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