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You matter. You are. Be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle
one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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
Time isn't any more important than size. All that is required of you is to be in the Now, in this moment which has been given us.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
— Madeleine L'Engle
you don't have to understand things for them to be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ananda," Mrs. Murry said thoughtfully. "That rings some kind of bell." "It's Sanskrit," Charles Wallace said. Meg asked, "Does it mean anything?" "That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Twentieth-century man has created his own fantasies through science (...). What fantastic achievements have thereby been made possible in the way of moving faster, growing richer, communicating more rapidly, mastering illnesses, and altogether overcoming the hazards of our earthly existence. But all the achievements have led to a true nature of our being: in other words, an alienation from God. If it were possible to live without God, it would not be worth living at all.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
— Hilaire Belloc
To deny or ignore the existence of an enemy is to give him a great chance against you; and the flesh is in the believer to the very end, a force of evil to be reckoned with continually, an evil force inside a man, and yet, thank God, a force which can be so dealt with by the power of God, that it shall have no power to defile the heart or deflect the will.
— Andrew Murray
When People talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
— John Adams