It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — 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
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is… — 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
