Madeleine L'Engle Thoughts
Best 30+ Madeleine L'Engle Messages, Quotes, and Images
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
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The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.