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Faith Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

23 Faith quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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Madeleine L'Engle’s take on faith feels like a quiet conversation between curiosity and belief. Her 23 quotes weave together the wonder of storytelling and the quiet strength of conviction, offering a gentle invitation to consider how faith shapes our inner worlds.

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“But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.”

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To write for children at all is an act of faith.

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“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says…

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“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some…

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“Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.”

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It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what…

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“Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments…

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“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go,…

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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

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This is the irrational season/ Had Mary been filled with reason/ There'd have been no room/ For the child. - Madeleine L'Engle

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“I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and…

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God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised…

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When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think…

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Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that…

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very…

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“Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who…

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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith…

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“Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even…

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“A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old,…

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“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The…

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“Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down…

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I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always,…

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

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Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

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“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty…

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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

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“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her…

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I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,…

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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…

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My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said…

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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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