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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 481e920 | One of my young married students has suffered all her life because she was taught in her Church that she was born so sinful that the only way the wrath of God the Father could be appeased enough for him to forgive all her horrible sinfulness was for God the Son to die in agony on the cross. Without his suffering, the Father would remain angry forever with all his Creation. Many of us have had a least part of that horror thrust on us at one.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| eb53f69 | The Greeks had a word for ultimate self-consciousness which I find illuminating: hubris: pride: pride in the sense of putting oneself in the center of the universe. The strange and terrible thing is that this kind of total self-consciousness invariably ends in self-annihilation. The great tragedians have always understood this, from Sophocles to Shakespeare. We witness it in history in such people as Tiberius, Eva Peron, Hider. I | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 0e43329 | My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out those words we may cry them out, too. | faith jesus-christ | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d17073c | writes Madeleine L'Engle, "in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time."10" | Sarah Arthur | ||
| 77240e1 | Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 824465d | The Need for Silence Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him. Psalm 37:7 HCSB The world seems to grow louder day by day, and our senses seem to be invaded at every turn. If we allow the distractions of a clamorous society to separate us from God's peace, we do ourselves a profound disservice. Our task, as believers, is to carve out moments of silence in a world filled with noise. If we are to maintain righteous minds and comp.. | Freeman Smith | ||
| eaf6a74 | Listening to God The one who is from God listens to God's words. This is why you don't listen, because you are not from God. John 8:47 HCSB Sometimes, God displays His wishes in ways that are undeniable. But on other occasions, the hand of God is much more subtle than that. Sometimes, God speaks to us in quiet tones, and when He does, we are well advised to listen ... carefully. Do you take time each day for an extended period of silence? A.. | Freeman Smith | ||
| 41873b3 | The reaper lacks the eyes to hold him back; | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b0e4d4a | When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3fe200d | The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity. Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us... | potential | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 0f420a0 | Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. Madeleine L'Engle | Emily T. Wierenga | ||
| 6ffc372 | The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. --Madeleine L'Engle | Stasi Eldredge | ||
| c888729 | Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 09c8dea | Once Christianity became acceptable, and even mandatory, it lost the early poverty of spirit which sustained it when any group gathered together for bread and wine in his Name had to have one ear open for the knock on the door. But don't we ever have opportunities for poverty of spirit, we middle-class, comfortable Americans? We do, though what is asked of us is not as spectacular or as dangerous as what was asked of the first Christians. B.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7beab31 | One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner guests said that when the electric light was invented, people began to lose the dimension of the supernatural. In the days before we could touch a switch and flood every section of the room with light, there were always shadows in the corner, shadows which moved with candlelight, with firelight; and these shadows were an outward and visible sign .. | supernatural | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 1b60ad3 | I doubt if it is given to the human being to understand completely the blessed passion and precious death, the mighty resurrection and glorious ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. I know that I do not understand. But I also know that it has nothing to do with the angry unforgiving God who so upset my young friend. If the basic definition of sin is lack of love (that love without which all men are dead in the sight of God, as Cranmer wrote i.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d574d6c | If you ladies have had your fun I think you should tell Calvin and Meg a little more about all this," Charles Wallace said coldly. "You scared Meg half out of her wits, whisking her off this way without any warning." | quotes | Madeleine L'Engleine L'Engle | |
| 23a3324 | If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out to be wrong, I have done it, and I must bear the responsibility. It is not somebody else's or something else's fault. If it is I am less than human. Like everybody else, I tend to rationalize and alibi, before I let myself admit, "Yes, I did this. I am sorry. I will do what I can to make reparation." Our sins defeat us unless we are willi.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 46787aa | 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 c.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 65baca5 | Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 19d7657 | 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. | christian-artists questions | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 991c44e | It's like Madeleine L'Engle says. We are made up of all our ages. | Rachel Devenish Ford | ||
| 4794723 | You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 10932a5 | Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 860105a | IT IS THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE WHICH MAKES US HUMAN. --Madeleine L'Engle | Greg McKeown | ||
| 375d906 | The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of having his work bought and appreciated during his lifetime; no wonder the pain was more than he could bear); the composer needs his music to be heard. Art is communication, and if there is no communication it is as though the work has been stillborn. | communication | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 34ec79b | Po-tvoemu, ob'iasnit' mozhno vse i vsegda? -- Da. Ia veriu v eto. No ia takzhe dumaiu, chto my, liudi, slishkom ogranichenny, a potomu inogda prosto ne v sostoianii postich' eti ob'iasneniia. No ty ved' ponimaesh', Meg, chto nasha nesposobnost' poniat' eshche ne znachit, chto ob'iasneniia ne sushchestvuet. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 927efe6 | Madeleine L'Engle said, "the great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." 58 I think the same is true for churches." | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| 7b3dc52 | U nas nikomu ne pozvoleno stradat'. Dobree mery ne pridumaesh': prosto iskliuchit' iz obshchestva vsekh bol'nykh! Nikto ne imeet nikakikh slabostei i takikh otklonenii, kak soplivye nosy. Vmesto togo, chtoby pozvolit' im stradat' ot otklonenii, ikh prosto usypliaiut. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 26f5dc9 | You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fd8b57f | He's not good for you," Omio said. "He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| edcdd3c | Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4ac4507 | Not so much of dying, if--I'm afraid of annihilation. Of not being. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7ad6e3f | You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ffea22f | CENTRAL Central | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f38d235 | No matter how many eons it takes, he will not rest until all of creation, including Satan, is reconciled to him, until there is no creature who cannot return his love with a joyful response of love." --Madeleine L'Engle" | Thomas Talbott | ||
| 0b7f0a7 | Nu zachem vy obiazatel'no khotite, chtoby ia smotrela na nepriiatnye veshchi, kogda v mire est' stol'ko chudesnogo? -- V mire skoro ne ostanetsia chudesnykh veshchei, na kotorye ty smogla by smotret', esli otvetstvennye liudi ne pozabotiatsia o nepriiatnykh veshchakh! | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2bd9706 | Ia upravliaiu gipnoticheskoi mashinoi nomer odin dlia vtorogo klassa obshcheobrazovatel'nogo protsessa. -- No togda chto vy delaete zdes' seichas? -- sprosil Charl'z. -- Ia zdes' s dokladom o tom, chto odna iz bukv na moei mashine zapadaet i, poka ee kak sleduet ne smazhet master F-klassa, ostaetsia opasnost' defektov v mozgakh. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7692cab | A u vas samogo razve ne bylo papy? -- udivilas' Meg. -- Papa ne nuzhen zachem-to. On nuzhen vam prosto potomu, chto on vash papa! | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 82edd56 | What happens to what's happened?" she asked the bishop. "It's there. Waiting." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| bfe4698 | Madeleine L'Engle writes, "To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." | Robert A. Fryling | ||
| 153da24 | THE MINUTE WE BEGIN TO THINK WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, WE FORGET THE QUESTIONS. Madeleine L'Engle | Michael Bungay Stanier | ||
| a56c956 | When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle | Brené Brown | ||
| 1a5fda5 | A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. | Architecture |