# Quote — Madeleine L’Engle, The Rock That Is Higher

> Life is full of questions, and we are free to ask them, to understand, occasionally, that we are not going to get an answer, or at least not the answer we expect, and then we are called to move on. But I believe that God encourages us to ask questions.

- Author: [Madeleine L’Engle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/madeleine-lengle.md)
- Book: [The Rock That Is Higher](https://www.leafyquotes.com/madeleine-lengle/the-rock-that-is-higher.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madeleine_L'Engle#The_Rock_that_Is_Higher_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/madeleine-lengle/the-rock-that-is-higher/life-is-full

## More from this book

> We are not to retreat from life, pinning our hopes on ‘elsewhere.’ but to know that we will come to that final destination best by living full here and now, be it through joy, or pain, or a mix of both.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/madeleine-lengle/the-rock-that-is-higher/we-are-not.md)

> The truth of a story is what the novelist strives for, and quite often the writer is taken down strange and unexpected paths on this search.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/madeleine-lengle/the-rock-that-is-higher/the-truth-of-a-story.md)

> Faith is for the part of the story that superficially isn’t believable.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/madeleine-lengle/the-rock-that-is-higher/faith-is-for.md)