Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

Life without hope is no life.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.