Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

• I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Sea, Tree

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

• The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Home, Heart, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.26, Macmillan

• 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 count the hairs of my head.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Hair, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

• If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Heart, Needs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.61, Open Road Media

• 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

  God, Atheist, Believe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.30, Convergent Books

• Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Heart, Pascal

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.28, Macmillan

• Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Men, Forever

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.158, Macmillan

• We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Peace, Heart, Ubuntu

• 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

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