Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.

Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I believe in angels. I believe in God.

Nothing scares me but God.

Fear first made gods in the world.

I believe in angels.

I was rather obsessed with angels.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Do you believe in miracles?

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.

We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.