Christy

“William James wrote: “Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother sea or reservoir.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“If she wanted to write Christian fiction, how was she to go about it? I told her that if she is truly and deeply a Christian, what she writes is going to be Christian, whether she mentions Jesus or not. And if she is not, in the most profound sense, Christian, then what she writes is not going to be Christian, no matter how many times she invokes the name of the Lord.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art