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Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves....
- Madeleine L'Engle
When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.
- Madeleine L'Engle
So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.
- Madeleine L'Engle
When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.
- Madeleine L'Engle
You matter. You are. Be.
- Madeleine L'Engle
And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?
- Madeleine L'Engle
If I cannot see evidence of incarnation in a painting of a bridge in the rain by Hokusai, a book by Chaim Potok or Isaac Bashevis Singer, music by Bloch or Bernstein, then I will miss its significance in an Annunciation by Franciabigio, the final chorus of the St. Matthew Passion , the words of a sermon by John Donne.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind
- John Maxwell
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
- Martin Luther
We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.
- Andrew Murray
The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us.
- Andrew Murray
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
- John Donne