Joy Davidman Professions : Poet Born : April 18, 1915 Died : July 13, 1960 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Joy Davidman 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. Joy Davidman drug cities house Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"? Joy Davidman twists dream want No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough. Joy Davidman consumerism wealth enough Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating. Joy Davidman liberating alright fool Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible. Joy Davidman greed christian men I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress. Joy Davidman divine-help progress world 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. Joy Davidman sight doe joy We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. Joy Davidman milk atheism Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
