Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious impossible which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.