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

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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'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…

- Madeleine L'Engle

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

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…

- Madeleine L'Engle

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

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