Quotes about Love
I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?
— Madeleine L'Engle
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The only thing I know about the Second Coming is that it is going to happen because of God's love. God made the universe out of love; the Word shouted all things joyfully into being because of love. The Second Coming, whenever it happens and whatever it means, will also be because of love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Cecily moved her lips slowly, "Now I lay me," and "Our Father," and "God bless." And then, defiantly, "Dear balloon man, please dear balloon man, Father says you know God personally, and maybe he wouldn't hear me because I'm not very big or important, so would you please make Mother get well and come home and sing me the song about the king of the cannibal islands?
— Madeleine L'Engle
With all our human struggling for power we cannot heal ourselves, so God, with wondrous love, gives away power, gives away himself so that we may be healed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Greeks in their wisdom had four words for our one, love: there was charity, agapé; sexual love, eros; family love, storgé; friendship, philia.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.
— Madeleine L'Engle