Madeleine LEngle Quotes about Joy

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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Madeleine L'Engle

Faith, Lying, Joy

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.21, Convergent Books

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Madeleine L'Engle

Hurt, Joy, Feelings

Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

Madeleine L'Engle

Pain, Writing, Joy

"The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.