Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Humility

• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Jobs, Real, Humility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.55, Convergent Books

• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Humility, Artist

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Humility, Throwing

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2011

• One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Humble, Humility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.9, Open Road Media

• Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Integrity, Humility, Quality

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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