Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

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.

The purpose of the story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet towards home.

Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.

God doesn't plan the horrors. They happen. But God can come into them.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?

believe God can come into the terrible things and redeem them.

What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.

You know when you cut yourself really badly, it doesn't hurt for a while. You don't feel anything. Death- our reaction to death- is sort of like that. You don't feel anything at all. And then, later on, you begin to hurt.

Only a human being can say I'm sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter.

Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.