Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5-6
all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why, my Lord, did you have to bring Me down from the safety of my hill Into the danger of your will? (David p. 34)
— Madeleine L'Engle
Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.
— Madeleine L'Engle
My heart believed even when my mind faltered. I listened to my heart and I wrote A Wrinkle in Time as an affirmation that there was indeed light in the darkness with which I was surrounded. I wrote it for God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I suppose that depends on how you look at it," Meg said. "Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if I have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry I tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When Sporos Deepens," Proginoskes told Mr. Jenkins, "it means that he comes of age. It means that he grows up. The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I think this is one of the situations where there is no right choice. We have to pray that we make the choice that is the least wrong.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
— Madeleine L'Engle