Believe Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Believing takes practice.

— Madeleine L'Engle

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

— Madeleine L'Engle

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually…

— Madeleine L'Engle

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one…

— Madeleine L'Engle

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy…

— Madeleine L'Engle

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it…

— Madeleine L'Engle

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had…

— Madeleine L'Engle

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small…

— Madeleine L'Engle