A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
