Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

Madeleine L'Engle's Popular Quotes

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

- Madeleine L'Engle

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to te…

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Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is 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 th…

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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

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If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they …

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When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

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But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

- Madeleine L'Engle