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May Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- 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…
- If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very…
- I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she…
- We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them.…
- It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries…
- Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.
- It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of…
- If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may…
- If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong