--- title: "24 Ifs Quotes By Madeleine L'Engle" description: "24 Ifs quotes by Madeleine L'Engle. Plus more from Madeleine L'Engle and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/866/madeleine-l-engle-345_book_if-a-book-is-not-good-enough-for-a-grown_244388.png" --- > [if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-a-book-is-not-good-enough-for-a-grownup-it-is-not-good-enough-for/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/866/madeleine-l-engle-345_book_if-a-book-is-not-good-enough-for-a-grown_244388.png) > [If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-i-have-something-i-want-to-say-that-is-too-difficult-for-adults-to-2/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55b/madeleine-l-engle-345_adults_if-i-have-something-i-want-to-say-that-i_3064030.png) > [If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-i-m-not-free-to-fail-i-m-not-free-to-take-risks-and-everything-in/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/madeleine-l-engle-345_failing_if-i-m-not-free-to-fail-i-m-not-free-to_3107639.png) > [If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-you-want-to-write-you-need-to-keep-an-honest-unpublishable-journal/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/madeleine-l-engle-345_honest_if-you-want-to-write-you-need-to-keep-an_848188.png) > [Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/just-write-a-little-bit-every-day-even-if-it-s-for-only-half-an-hour/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/madeleine-l-engle-345_bits_just-write-a-little-bit-every-day-even-i_89795.png) > [No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/no-matter-how-true-i-believe-what-i-am-writing-to-be-if-the-reader/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4e/madeleine-l-engle-345_believe_no-matter-how-true-i-believe-what-i-am-w_2503608.png) > [To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/to-be-a-witness-means-to-live-in-such-a-way-that-one-s-life-would-not/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/madeleine-l-engle-345_exist_to-be-a-witness-means-to-live-in-such-a_1775998.png) > [If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-our-language-is-watered-down-then-mankind-becomes-less-human-and/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b13/madeleine-l-engle-345_humans_if-our-language-is-watered-down-then-man_1659406.png) > [We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/we-find-what-we-are-looking-for-if-we-are-looking-for-life-and-love/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2e/madeleine-l-engle-345_and-love_we-find-what-we-are-looking-for-if-we-ar_2891221.png) > [We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/we-do-not-know-and-cannot-tell-when-the-spirit-is-with-us-great/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d0/madeleine-l-engle-345_adequate_we-do-not-know-and-cannot-tell-when-the_1203892.png) > [If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-you-want-to-write-you-need-to-keep-an-honest-unpublishable-journal-2/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d7/madeleine-l-engle-345_fairs_if-you-want-to-write-you-need-to-keep-an_1626894.png) > [If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-you-don-t-recount-your-family-history-it-will-be-lost-honor-your/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/madeleine-l-engle-345_family_if-you-don-t-recount-your-family-history_483946.jpg) > [We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/we-tend-to-defend-vigorously-things-that-in-our-deepest-hearts-we-are/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e8/madeleine-l-engle-345_certain_we-tend-to-defend-vigorously-things-that_2362377.png) > [I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/i-know-writers-who-write-only-when-inspiration-comes-how-would-isaac/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a01/madeleine-l-engle-345_felt_i-know-writers-who-write-only-when-inspi_2239620.png) > [Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad0/madeleine-l-engle-345_broken_severe-illness-isolates-those-in-close-c_25594.jpg) > [Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/language-changes-if-it-does-not-change-like-latin-it-dies-but-we-need/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/098/madeleine-l-engle-345_change_language-changes-if-it-does-not-change-l_529859.png) > [I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/i-got-so-discouraged-i-almost-stopped-writing-it-was-my-12-year-old/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/madeleine-l-engle-345_changed_i-got-so-discouraged-i-almost-stopped-wr_274309.png) > [If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-i-have-something-i-want-to-say-that-is-too-difficult-for-adults-to/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fe/madeleine-l-engle-345_adults_if-i-have-something-i-want-to-say-that-i_897702.png) > [When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/when-we-look-at-a-painting-or-hear-a-symphony-or-read-a-book-and-feel/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/madeleine-l-engle-345_art_when-we-look-at-a-painting-or-hear-a-sym_2029128.jpg) > [Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/only-christ-can-free-us-from-the-prison-of-legalism-and-then-only-if/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d35/madeleine-l-engle-345_christ_only-christ-can-free-us-from-the-prison_2446987.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b6/madeleine-l-engle-345_being-hurt_if-we-aren-t-capable-of-being-hurt-we-ar_69829.png) > [If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-it-s-bad-art-it-s-bad-religion-no-matter-how-pious-the-subject/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/madeleine-l-engle-345_art_if-it-s-bad-art-it-s-bad-religion-no-mat_443963.png) > [If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-you-re-going-to-care-about-the-fall-of-the-sparrow-you-can-t-pick/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bb/madeleine-l-engle-345_bird_if-you-re-going-to-care-about-the-fall-o_1039673.png) > [If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/if-our-love-for-each-other-really-is-participatory-then-all-other/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/madeleine-l-engle-345_exclusive_if-our-love-for-each-other-really-is-par_265605.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/madeleine-l-engle/#itemlist", "name": "24 Ifs Quotes By Madeleine L'Engle", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Madeleine L'Engle" }, "url": 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