Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

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

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

I believe God is in the details.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

I feel connected to God when I'm out there performing.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.

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

Either all days are holy or none are.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.