Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.

When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

A new couple does a lot of things for each other. And slowly they lose interest and it affects the relationship. It is a part of life and a lot of people experience this.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.

Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.