Madeleine LEngle Quotes about Prayer

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I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

Madeleine L'Engle

Faith, Prayer, Wings

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.79, Open Road Media

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Madeleine L'Engle

Prayer, Moving, May

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.123, Convergent Books

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Madeleine L'Engle

Prayer, Home, Self

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Art, Prayer, Children

Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Madeleine L'Engle

Prayer, Monologues, Interiors

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

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

Madeleine L'Engle

Prayer, Self, Way

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.23, Convergent Books