A Severe Mercy By Sheldon Vanauken Quotes & Sayings

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences. — Damon Galgut

No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme. — Lauren Willig

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. — James K. Polk

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer. — George Amos Dorsey

Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential. — Beth Brooke

Do not fear weakness. Lean on God who will be your strength through every dark storm. — Dana Arcuri

Someone has opened the gates of hell, and you can feel the heat. — Manel Loureiro

She shrugged noncommittally. "Not bad."
Kyle scoffed. "Not bad? Counselor, there are two things I've got mad skills at: And computer science is the other one. — Julie James

By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass, in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.
After a little I am taken in and put to bed. Sleep, soft smiling, draws me unto her: and those receive me, who quietly treat me, as one familiar and well-beloved in that home: but will not, oh, will not, not now, not ever; but will not ever tell me who I am. — James Agee

Behave like the flower; it blooms with its own petals without bothering to take the colour of another flower's petals. You can excel with what you have! — Israelmore Ayivor

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans? — Peter Singer

Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sheldon Vanauken

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure! — Nursing Mothers' Association Of Australia

If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable. — Aleister Crowley