A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we’d be—we’d be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The… — 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
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
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
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
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“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
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“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
“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
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
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
