Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.