Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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

• To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Moving, May

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.123, Convergent Books

• 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

• The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Self, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.23, Convergent Books

• prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Trying, Ineffable

• Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Monologues, Interiors

• A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Home, Self

• When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Prayer, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

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