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.

Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

Topics: Life Quotes

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies...

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have...

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle...

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle...

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books...

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books...

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage...

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage...

Only your friends steal your books

Only your friends steal your books

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old...

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old...

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens...

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens...

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The...

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The...

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but...

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but...

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone...

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone...

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times...

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times...

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books...

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books...

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought...

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought...

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally...

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally...

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.