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Quotes About Light

Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes contracted. When the final point of black was lost in blue he turned away from the red eyes, looked at Meg, and smiled sweetly, but the smile was not Charles Wallaces smile.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here. Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything, Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkle.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to his knees. No, Mrs. Whatsit said, though her voice was not Mrs. Whatsit's voice. Not to me Calvin. Never to me. Stand up.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
All of those who are willing to face the darkness bring the best of themselves to the light, for the world.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, Mrs. Which said. The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here! Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out on his face. Even traveling at the speed of light, it would take us years and years to get here. Oh we don't travel by the speed of anything, Mrs. Whatsit explained earnestly. We teaser. Or you might say, we wrinkle.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
For me, this book activates both transparency and resistance. It urges us to open ourselves up to those hurts, those tribulations, those disappointments, those doubts, those uncertainties. All of which can be summarized as darkness. It walks us through that pain to a light within ourselves, sparking us to resist all that is not for our good and fight for a better way. Simply put, A Wrinkle in Time offers a glimpse of eternity
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light. The shadows are deepening all around us.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light."—Madeleine L'Engle
~ Madeleine L'Engle
My heart believed even when my mind faltered. I listened to my heart and I wrote A Wrinkle in Time as an affirmation that there was indeed light in the darkness with which I was surrounded. I wrote it for God.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
embracing her now would have been like trying to hug a sunbeam
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The sky lightened, and the sun sent its fiery rays over the edge of the lake, reaching up into the sky, pulling itself, dripping, from the waters of the night.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of the joy.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Good helps us, the stars help us, perhaps what you would call light helps us, love helps us.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All these I place By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I love you. Charles Wallace, you are my darling and my dear and the light of my life and the treasure of my heart.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Derdinin üzerine biraz ???k düÅŸür, t?pk? çiçekler gibi dertlerin de ????a ve havaya ihtiyac? vard?r.
~ Maeve Binchy
open, the light streaming in in a harsh triangle, Henry's face was
~ Maeve Binchy
I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.' All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.
~ Maggie Nelson
238. I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world. 239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.
~ Maggie Nelson