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Madeleine l'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time (Library of America) QUOTES

Madeleine l'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time (Library of America) QUOTES

1 " It’s better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That’s one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , Madeleine l'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time (Library of America)

2 " Despite Darwin and the later prophets of science, I grew up in a world in which my elders taught me that the planet earth was the chief purpose of the Creator, and that all the stars in the heavens were put there entirely for our benefit, and that humankind is God’s only real interest in the universe. It didn’t take as much imagination and courage then as it does now to believe that God has time to be present at a deathbed, to believe that human suffering does concern him, to believe that he loves every atom of his creation, no matter how insignificant. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , Madeleine l'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time (Library of America)

3 " In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , Madeleine l'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time (Library of America)

4 " You won’t grow up until you learn that all human beings betray each other and that we are going to be let down even by those we most trust. Especially by those we most trust.’ I didn’t like this, but it had the ring of truth. And I didn’t like that, either. ‘If we put human beings on pedestals, their clay feet are going to give way and they are going to come crashing down, and unless we get out of the way, they’ll crush us.’ And I didn’t get out of the way. "

― Madeleine L'Engle , Madeleine l'Engle: The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Waters / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time (Library of America)