Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If God’s peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small… — 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
