If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
