Giving Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

22 Giving quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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Madeleine L'Engle blends imagination with moral clarity, portraying giving as an act of love that stretches beyond the ordinary. In twenty‑two passages her lyrical voice invites readers to view generosity as a kind of quiet magic.

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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

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If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

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It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

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What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

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Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need…

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I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the…

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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

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It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what…

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Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all…

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If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not…

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It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for…

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George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The…

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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe…

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Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange…

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Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have…

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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I…

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what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any…

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The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to…

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We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to…

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What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that…

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Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"…

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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

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“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty…

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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

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“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her…

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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,…

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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…

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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…

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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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