A Severe Mercy Quotes by Sheldon Vanauken
Sorrow must be allowed to blossom into self-forgetful love of God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
The thought occurred to Thomas that it might have been preferable to lose her to water than to anger: then he might have mourned the girl who’d loved him, and not been subject to withdrawal of that love. Then God forgive me, he thought, and it would have to make do for a prayer.