We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
Madeleine L'EngleYou donโt know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if youโll ever learn.
Madeleine L'EngleOur story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.
Madeleine L'EngleRather 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 โ and out of nothing โ can still count the hairs of my head.
Madeleine L'Engle