Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our… — 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
