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Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

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American writer, born on November 29, 1918, and died on September 6, 2007. Madeleine L'Engle is renowned for her science fiction and fantasy novels, with her most famous work being 'A Wrinkle in Time'. more

“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”

Moments Contagious

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.”

May Stills Book Reading Hundred Drunk Good Book

Book:The Anatomy of Bibliomania

Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”

Thinking Men Mind Book Loses

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”

Love Heart Night Stars Adversity Prosperity Recovery Sunshine

Book:Morning by Morning for Graduates

Source: Morning by Morning for Graduates

“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.”

Ifs Thinking Real Done Seems Jobs Accepting Danger Humility Bears Glory Evident Qualified Qualifications Unqualified

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?”

Bigs House Generations Creation Periods Truth Is Hundred Originals Burning Copies Revival Mock Tudors Burning Down

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!”

Bigs

Author:Diablo Cody

“Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.”

Ifs Shows Wanted Can Do Worry Sticks Spite Originality

Author:Robert Henri

“Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.”

Art Law Values Order Growth Economy Balance Judgment Good Things Very Good Relative Relative Value

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

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