Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.

We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.