“Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.” — 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
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — 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
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
“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
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
“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“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
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“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
“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
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
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
