850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.

Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

We draw people to Christ not 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.

I have been wondering this summer why our love has seemed deeper, tenderer than ever before. It's taken us twenty-five years, almost, but perhaps at last we are willing to let each other be; as we are; two diametrically opposite human beings in many ways, which has often led to storminess. But I think we are both learning not to chafe at the other's particular isness.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

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