Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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

  Believe, Heart, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.172, Convergent Books

• Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prison, Christ, Legalism

• Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Women, Godly

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.53, Convergent Books

• If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Writing, May

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.102, Convergent Books

• When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Art, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

• All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lost Ones, Sheep, Grace

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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