The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'EngleIf our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
Madeleine L'EngleA community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
Madeleine L'EngleFor the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
Madeleine L'Engle