Miracle on 10th Street Quotes

“Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings

“Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot see or understand. My whole being comes from an unseen, unknown nurturer. By that nurturer I am totally loved and protected, and that love is forever. It does not end when I am precipitated out of the safe waters of the womb into the unsafe world. It will. It end when I breathe my last, mortal breath. That love manifested itself joyously in the creation of the universe, became particular for us in Jesus, and will show itself most gloriously in the Second Coming. We need not fear.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings

“One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings

“It is only after we have been enabled to say, “Be it unto me according to your Word,” that we can accept the paradoxes of Christianity. Christ comes to live with us, bringing an incredible promise of God’s love, but never are we promised that there will be no pain, no suffering, no death, but rather that these very griefs are the road to love and eternal life. In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love, that love which will redeem all the brokenness, wrongness, hardnesses of heart which have afflicted us.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“First coming He did not wait till the world was ready, till men and nations were at peace. He came when the Heavens were unsteady, and prisoners cried out for release. He did not wait for the perfect time. He came when the need was deep and great. He dined with sinners in all their grime, turned water into wine. He did not wait till hearts were pure. In joy he came to a tarnished world of sin and doubt. To a world like ours, of anguished shame he came, and his Light would not go out. He came to a world which did not mesh, to heal its tangles, shield its scorn. In the mystery of the Word made Flesh the Maker of the stars was born. We cannot wait till the world is sane to raise our songs with joyful voice, for to share our grief, to touch our pain, He came with Love: Rejoice! Rejoice!”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“Hush! Wait. What’s the rush? Why do we try to outguess God? He will come when he comes But nobody knows Jesus said: I don’t know when. Even the angels in Heaven don’t know. Only God. Hush!”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“Wait. It will be in God’s time, not ours. It will be for love Not human chronologies. What’s a millennium? A few years off anyhow And on a calendar not used by much of the world. Hush! Wait. He will come for love Never forget love Hush! Wait. Listen.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“The only thing I know about the Second Coming is that it is going to happen because of God’s love. God made the universe out of love; the Word shouted all things joyfully into being because of love. The Second Coming, whenever it happens and whatever it means, will also be because of love.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“Advent is not a time to declare, but to listen, to listen to whatever God may want to tell us through the singing of the stars, the quickening of a baby, the gallantry of a dying man.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“Too often, we think of mysticism as a way to abandon the world. But the greatest practitioners of mystical spirituality know that it actually moves us back into the world.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings