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
“There’s nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.” — 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 know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — 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
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — 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
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make… — 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
“Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg,” her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before… — 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… — 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, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just… — 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 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
