Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Lying, Joy

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.21, Convergent Books

• A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Happiness, Hurt, Laughter

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.130, Macmillan

• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Laughter, Laughing, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

• The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Long, Joy, Sorrow

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.92, Macmillan

• And joy is always a promise.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Joy, Promise

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.77, Open Road Media

• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Laughter, Selfish, Real

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle (Section 1.10), 1972.

• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Pain, Writing, Joy

  "The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.

• When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Children

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

• If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Joy, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

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