Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

I'm a big believer in letting kids have as much responsibility as you can give them in terms of helping around the house and getting themselves dressed.

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.