There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that everything in life can hold profound significance, blending the secular with the sacred.
Madeleine L'Engle's quote communicates the idea that even the most ordinary aspects of life can possess a deep spiritual essence. This reflects the belief that the divine is present in all things, urging us to recognize the significance and beauty in both the mundane and extraordinary experiences in our lives. The mention of the Incarnation underscores this message, emphasizing the merging of the divine with the everyday human experience.
In practice
In a speech about finding beauty in everyday life.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litterβd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
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