I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.
Interpretation
The quote expresses an overwhelming feeling of love triggered by the sight of a beautiful creature.
In this quote, Madeleine L'Engle captures the moment of profound emotional connection that often arises when one encounters something truly beautiful or innocent, such as a small creature. This experience acts as a catalyst, igniting feelings of love and compassion that may have been dormant, illustrating how beauty can evoke deep emotional responses and change our perspectives.
In practice
In a speech about parenting, one could say, 'Just like Madeleine L'Engle expressed, when I look at my child, love floods over me in an unexplainable way.'
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.
as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
The moon has become a dancer _x000D_ at this festival of LOVE.
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
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