An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage 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
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
“Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Character Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance Copy Share Image
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life… — Madeleine L'Engle Definitions Copy Share Image
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. — Madeleine L'Engle Good marriage Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Read Copy Share Image
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. — Madeleine L'Engle Avenues 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 Being Copy Share Image
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God… — Madeleine L'Engle Creator Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always… — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance 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 Safe place Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
