Quotes about Cosmos
When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life familiar to the Jews of his day. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.
— Madeleine L'Engle
how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.
— Madeleine L'Engle
dis-aster is separation from the stars. Such separation is disaster indeed. When we are separated from the stars, the sea, each other, we are in danger of being separated from God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The sun does not rise in the sky in loneliness; we are with him. The moon would be lost in isolation if we did not greet her with song. The stars dance together, and we dance with them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.
— Paulo Coelho
Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you've got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You're a world—everything is hidden in you.
— Hildegard of Bingen
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.