Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — 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
