"Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ...……" — Madeleine L'Engle
"Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made"
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Madeleine L'Engle
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324 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
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I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A…
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To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be…
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A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
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Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief.…
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To be born is to start the journey towards death.
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Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
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Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted…
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Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but…
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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of…
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When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation,…
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I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the…
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God…
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm…
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I…
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced…
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it…
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