Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I can’t do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven’s sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 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
What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — 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
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Idiot,” Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. “Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It… — 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
