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We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Madeleine L'Engle

Believe, Heart, Light

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.172, Convergent Books

The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

Madeleine L'Engle

Home, Heart, Long

Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.26, Macmillan

I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

Madeleine L'Engle

Heart, Sea, Tree

Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

Madeleine L'Engle

Heart, Hair, Feelings

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love, Heart, Pascal

Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.28, Macmillan

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Madeleine L'Engle

Prayer, Heart, Needs

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.61, Open Road Media

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

Madeleine L'Engle

Peace, Heart, Ubuntu