JD

Quotes by Joy Davidman

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No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
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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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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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I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.
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I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.
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I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
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Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
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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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We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.