To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle ... nothing loved is ever lost or perished. Madeleine L'Engle lost God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. Madeleine L'Engle independent I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree. Madeleine L'Engle seahearttree Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Madeleine L'Engle blind Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. Madeleine L'Engle plusknowsmen I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth Madeleine L'Engle motivationalbelievethinking Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. Madeleine L'Engle lightupliftingdepression There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Madeleine L'Engle secularsacredmessages When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it. Madeleine L'Engle faithnightthinking All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones. Madeleine L'Engle lost-onesgracesheep The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. Madeleine L'Engle valleysgrowthlove-is I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle." Madeleine L'Engle affirmationglorymind what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give. Madeleine L'Engle lightlove-isgiving Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. Madeleine L'Engle starslisteningwind To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. Madeleine L'Engle hard-workorderart I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. Madeleine L'Engle never-forgetlaughterforget Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker. Madeleine L'Engle dusthumbleroots I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. Madeleine L'Engle artisthumilitywriting I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished. Madeleine L'Engle hateangelwar As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory. Madeleine L'Engle givingmeanart
