anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to… — 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
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,… — 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
