Quotes about Unity
Itt iss Eevill… What is going to happen? Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!… And we're not alone, you know, children, came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. …some of the best fighters have come from your own planet… Who have our fighters been? Calvin asked. Oh, you must know them, dear, Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
— Madeleine L'Engle
One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose
— Madeleine L'Engle
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Friends do everything they can to protect each other. --Polly
— Madeleine L'Engle
Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?
— Madeleine L'Engle
But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, we and say I? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are we and us, a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive we remains. And most growth has come during times of trial.
— Madeleine L'Engle