Stories Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

20 Stories quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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Madeleine L'Engle fuses wonder with introspection. Across twenty tales she invites readers into worlds where curiosity meets deeper questions about purpose and belief.

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Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

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As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

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“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.”

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Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all…

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A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part…

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Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is…

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If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may…

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Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not…

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Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that…

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When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for…

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When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into…

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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with…

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The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief…

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I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because…

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“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our…

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My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where…

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There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first…

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“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how…

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Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to…

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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…

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Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead…

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Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

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“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty…

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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

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“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her…

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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,…

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