Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
- Madeleine L'Engle
we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which
- Madeleine L'Engle
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.
- Madeleine L'Engle
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
- Madeleine L'Engle
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
- Madeleine L'Engle
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
- Madeleine L'Engle
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
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
- Madeleine L'Engle
God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.
- Madeleine L'Engle