Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We're not peculiar." "Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Somehow or other, the loving parents had swallowed one of the Tempter's hooks, and the child was given total self-indulgence, which is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — 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
“But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But a planet can also become dark because of “too strong a desire for security … the greatest evil there is.” Meg… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like,… — 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
