“But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.” — Madeleine L'Engle 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 Copy Share Image
This is the irrational season/ Had Mary been filled with reason/ There'd have been no room/ For the child. - Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 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 Copy Share Image
“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — 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 my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
