Sold into Egypt Quotes

“Faith is not for the things we can prove, but for the things we cannot prove. The medical profession is in a time of crisis because of its amazing new technology. There are instruments and techniques that are wonderful lifesavers; some of them are also terrible death prolongers. The church is in its own time of crisis, seeming to fall into the same trap as the scientists, that of attempting to prolong the life of the body even when the spirit is gone.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“Love does not create only to abandon or annihilate.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“We don’t have to be perpetually and flawlessly faithful. Only God is that. In God’s love I may be angry, I may be anguished, I may be exhausted, but I am not afraid, because God is love and Love casts out fear.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“But it will not frighten me, because there is no place too dark for Love’s light to shine, no place of filth without a spot where Love can come in and clean.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“Perhaps our contribution in these days is not so much the evangelizing of the world as it is the Christianizing of the Church itself.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“To observe and contemplate what God has made is an act of joy. The moment Adam and Eve felt shame they lost the joy. Where there is no joy the presence of God is obscured.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“When religion causes judgmentalism, suspicion, and hate, there is something wrong with religion. It has become dehumanizing, and therefore it is bad religion, and we become once more a horror and a hissing and an everlasting reproach.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“the universe was made by Love, and belongs to Love.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being

“Thomas Traherne writes, You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars; and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more so, because men [male and female] are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, and in good as coming from God…you never enjoy the world.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being