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The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

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