We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. — Madeleine L'Engle Character Copy Share Image
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love. — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two… — Madeleine L'Engle Euclid Copy Share Image
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. — Madeleine L'Engle Another life Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of… — Madeleine L'Engle Awareness Copy Share Image
“The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean… — Madeleine L'Engle Moon Copy Share Image
“I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. "Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be… — Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in time Copy Share Image
“Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. “I’m all confused again.”… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I suppose that depends on how you look at it,” Meg said. “Usually no matter what happens people think it’s my fault,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Asylums Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for… — Madeleine L'Engle Action Copy Share Image
“Neither sadist nor masochist, I still Must turn to violence: break, be broken. False image of myself I beg you: kill. Help… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
“In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to… — Madeleine L'Engle Body work Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
“Silence is dangerous We never permit it. Our vocabulary may not be large But there is no question that we put it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — Madeleine L'Engle Apostles Copy Share Image
“But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.” — Madeleine L'Engle Collapse Copy Share Image
