Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Prayer, Wings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.79, Open Road Media

• Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

• A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.222, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

• Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Depression, Uplifting, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.183, Macmillan

• At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fire, Wrath, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015

• We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Book, Light, Illumination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.97, Convergent Books

• It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Real

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.100, Macmillan

• There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Darkness, Dazzling

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.57, Macmillan

• 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

  Children, Light, Darkness

• 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, Dancing, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.295, Macmillan

• Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.102, Macmillan

• There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Light, Darkness, Dazzle

  Madeleine L'Engle (1980). “A Ring of Endless Light”, Laurel Leaf

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