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 Closest Copy Share Image
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray — Madeleine L'Engle Equal Copy Share Image
“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.” — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer. — Madeleine L'Engle Interiors Copy Share Image
“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.” — Madeleine L'Engle Jesus Copy Share Image
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're… — Madeleine L'Engle Easier Copy Share Image
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle Destiny Copy Share Image
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Chiefs Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in… — Madeleine L'Engle Conscious Copy Share Image
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom 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 Author Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Age 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 Adam Copy Share Image
“As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go,… — Madeleine L'Engle Anger and pain Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Being 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 Able 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 Arms Copy Share Image
“It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live… — Madeleine L'Engle Existence Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Capable Copy Share Image
It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of… — Madeleine L'Engle Ashamed Copy Share Image
“If God’s peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark clouds Copy Share Image
“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male… — Madeleine L'Engle Male Copy Share Image
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend… — Madeleine L'Engle Awareness Copy Share Image
