--- title: "4 Contradiction Quotes By Madeleine L'Engle" description: "4 Contradiction quotes by Madeleine L'Engle. Plus more from Madeleine L'Engle and more Contradiction sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/668/madeleine-l-engle-345_character_the-deeper-and-richer-a-personality-is-t_1364552.png" --- > [The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/the-deeper-and-richer-a-personality-is-the-more-full-it-is-of-paradox/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/668/madeleine-l-engle-345_character_the-deeper-and-richer-a-personality-is-t_1364552.png) > [The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/the-world-of-science-lives-fairly-comfortably-with-paradox-we-know/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b43/madeleine-l-engle-345_chance_the-world-of-science-lives-fairly-comfor_1815989.jpg) > [“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/when-i-start-a-new-seminar-i-tell-my-students-that-i-will-undoubtedly-2/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/madeleine-l-engle-345_acceptance_when-i-start-a-new-seminar-i-tell-my-stu_1882671.png) > [There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/there-is-no-way-that-you-can-read-the-entire-bible-seriously-and-take/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/552/madeleine-l-engle-345_adam_there-is-no-way-that-you-can-read-the-en_2859485.jpg) ## Other authors on Contradiction - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/ayn-rand/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-merton-90507.jpg) Thomas Merton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/thomas-merton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hume-27582.jpg) David Hume 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/david-hume/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-paine-90547.jpg) Thomas Paine 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/thomas-paine/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terence-mckenna-89395.jpg) Terence McKenna 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/terence-mckenna/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mao-zedong-63096.jpg) Mao Zedong 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/mao-zedong/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erich-fromm-33632.jpg) Erich Fromm 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/erich-fromm/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simone-weil-85539.jpg) Simone Weil 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/simone-weil/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ## More by Madeleine L'Engle > [“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/one-of-the-hardest-lessons-i-have-to-learn-is-how-not-to-be/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/inspiration-more-often-comes-during-the-work-than-before-it-because/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/you-have-to-write-the-book-that-wants-to-be-written-and-if-the-book/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/severe-illness-isolates-those-in-close-contact-with-it-because-it/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/goodness-has-never-been-a-guarantee-of-safety/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/faith-is-what-makes-life-bearable-with-all-its-tragedies-and/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/instead-of-rejoicing-in-this-glorious-impossible-which-gives-meaning/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/i-have-never-lived-before-until-this-summer-i-did-not-know-what-it/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [On the other side of pain, there is still love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/on-the-other-side-of-pain-there-is-still-love/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/to-love-is-to-be-vulnerable-and-it-is-only-in-vulnerability-and-risk/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/it-was-the-most-horrible-the-most-repellent-thing-she-had-ever-seen/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/i-feel-as-though-i-m-not-breathing-when-i-m-out-of-his-presence-he-s/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/rather-than-feeling-lost-and-unimportant-and-meaningless-set-against/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/my-husband-is-my-most-ruthless-critic-sometimes-he-will-say-it-s-been/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) > [If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-we-aren-t-capable-of-being-hurt-we-aren-t-capable-of-feeling-joy/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/madeleine-l-engle/#itemlist", "name": "4 Contradiction Quotes By Madeleine L'Engle", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. 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