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 Anger Copy Share Image
“We are the called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of course we have help, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Called Copy Share Image
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write… — Madeleine L'Engle Form Copy Share Image
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. — Madeleine L'Engle Becoming Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
“I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.” — Madeleine L'Engle Grownup Copy Share Image
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact,… — Madeleine L'Engle Earth Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Family Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given… — Madeleine L'Engle Compare Copy Share Image
“Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Empty space Copy Share Image
“The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark… — Madeleine L'Engle Answer Copy Share Image
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
“I can’t do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven’s sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
“Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too… — Madeleine L'Engle Religion Copy Share Image
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
“So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but… — Madeleine L'Engle Aging Copy Share Image
“Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out… — Madeleine L'Engle Space travel Copy Share Image
“How did all this happen? Isn't it wonderful? I feel as though I were just be ing born! I'm not alone anymore!… — Madeleine L'Engle Book-1 Copy Share Image
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I… — Madeleine L'Engle Ability Copy Share Image
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.… — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always,… — Madeleine L'Engle Care Copy Share Image
“But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.” — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life — Madeleine L'Engle Avoided Copy Share Image
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing… — Madeleine L'Engle Deaf Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle Drama Copy Share Image
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. — Madeleine L'Engle Asking Copy Share Image
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're… — Madeleine L'Engle Easier Copy Share Image
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle Destiny 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 Conscious Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Chiefs Copy Share Image
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle Concentration Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can’t pick and choose who’s going to be the sparrow.… — Madeleine L'Engle Bird Copy Share Image
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
