Joy Davidman Quotes

#1. Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

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#2. I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.

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#3. I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

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#4. We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

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#5. What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home.

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#6. I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

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#7. I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.

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#8. No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

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#9. Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.

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#10. See yourself in the mirror, you're separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you're separate from the world. I don't want that separation anymore.

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#11. The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.

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