Matter Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

18 Matter quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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L'Engle brings her signature blend of wonder and depth to the topic of matter, weaving together imagination and reality. Across eighteen reflections, she invites readers to contemplate the tangible and the transcendent side by side.

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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,…

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It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

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If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

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Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

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No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then…

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If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that…

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Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not…

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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful…

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Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of…

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The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see…

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Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason…

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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and…

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Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that…

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A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a…

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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris…

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But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of…

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Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I…

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It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of…

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Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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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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