Quotes about Unity
But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, we and say I? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are we and us, a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive we remains. And most growth has come during times of trial.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The lines of love cross time and space.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Everything that we do either draws the Kingdom of love closer, or pushes it further off.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then
— Madeleine L'Engle
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Remember, Mr. Jenkins, you're great on Benjamin Franklin's saying, 'We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately
— Madeleine L'Engle