An Acceptable Time Quotes

“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“What happens to what's happened?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“We human creatures can make watches and clocks and sensitive timing devices, but we don’t understand what we’re timing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“William Langland, writing around 1400, said, ‘And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“The lines of love cross time and space.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Okay, Polly,” her grandfather said. “Let’s have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“When things are crazy, " her grandfather said, "dogs are a reminder of sanity.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“One theory I find rather comforting is that time exists so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“The stars do not foretell, because what has not happened must be free to happen, as it will.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“The sun does not rise in the sky in loneliness; we are with him. The moon would be lost in isolation if we did not greet her with song. The stars dance together, and we dance with them.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they’ll help you.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“God go with you.” “I don’t believe in God.” “That’s all right. I do.” “I’m glad.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“When Zachary saw Annie, he entered the circles of overlapping time. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Her godfather was an English canon who had taught her about a God of love and compassion, a God who was mysterious and tremendous, but not to be understood as “two atoms of hydrogen plus one atom of oxygen make water” could be understood. A God who cared about all that had been created in love.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren’t told that difficult or painful things won’t happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Anaral shook her head. “It is not in the goddess’s nature to destroy. She sends blessings. It is us, it is people who are destructive.” She left the tent abruptly.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Oh, zug,” Zachary grunted. “Not necessarily.” The bishop smiled slightly. “Sacred rites become zug, as you so graphically put it, only when they become ends in themselves, or divisive, or self-aggrandizing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“The day was gold and amber and russet and copper and bronze, with occasional flashes of flame.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“Yesterday’s heresy becomes tomorrow’s dogma,” the bishop replied mildly, and Polly thought once again of Giordano Bruno.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time

“I enjoy cooking. It’s therapy for me. Louise’s therapy is her rose garden. You may note, Polly, that we don’t have any roses.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time