If it can be verified, we don't need faith. . . Faith is for that which lies on … - Madeleine L'Engle

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There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Madeleine L'Engle

If it can be verified, we don't need faith. . . Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

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God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

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I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

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There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

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All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

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Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

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