Susan

“All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don’t forget that he never promised he’d say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . .

That he cares . . . That is all. Nothing else.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Love Letters

“matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn’t need to hate.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time Quintet