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.
Interpretation
Faith complements reason by providing comfort in uncertainty and life's complexities.
In this quote, Madeleine L'Engle emphasizes the essential role of faith in human experience. While reason can help us understand and verify many aspects of life, it is faith that offers solace amid uncertainties and the unpredictable nature of existence. Faith allows individuals to embrace the full spectrum of life, from its tragedies to its joys, serving as a necessary guiding force through ambiguities that reason alone cannot unveil.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming challenges, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of faith.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
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 are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
I love all waste _x000D_ And solitary places; where we taste _x000D_ The pleasure of believing what we see _x000D_ Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
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