Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? — Madeleine L'Engle Dignity Copy Share Image
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Chronology Copy Share Image
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they… — Madeleine L'Engle Destined Copy Share Image
“One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the… — Madeleine L'Engle Birth Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For… — Madeleine L'Engle Eternity Copy Share Image
“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm."… — Madeleine L'Engle Best friend Copy Share Image
“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“But a planet can also become dark because of “too strong a desire for security … the greatest evil there is.” Meg… — Madeleine L'Engle Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is… — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
“When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or… — Madeleine L'Engle Compulsion Copy Share Image
“Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The… — Madeleine L'Engle Good intentions Copy Share Image
“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Grief Copy Share Image
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly — Madeleine L'Engle Friend Copy Share Image
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
