Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. — Madeleine L'Engle Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests. — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.” — Madeleine L'Engle Feminism Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Artist Copy Share Image
“It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.” — Madeleine L'Engle Balance Copy Share Image
“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.” — Madeleine L'Engle Amor Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.” — Madeleine L'Engle Consumerism Copy Share Image
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. — Madeleine L'Engle Blind Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Calm Copy Share Image
“Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Civilization Copy Share Image
“Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here." "Oh, we don´t travel at… — Madeleine L'Engle Light years Copy Share Image
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the… — Madeleine L'Engle Bread and wine Copy Share Image
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
“We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then.… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.” — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle Great minds Copy Share Image
I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
