Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Relationship, Moving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Jesus, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.36, Open Road Media

• 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

• On the other side of pain, there is still love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Pain, Deep Thought

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin