“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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 Crosses 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
“the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the… — Madeleine L'Engle Chosen Copy Share Image
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing.… — Madeleine L'Engle Aunt Copy Share Image
“Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.” — Madeleine L'Engle Mind Copy Share Image
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need… — Madeleine L'Engle Causes 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 Book Copy Share Image
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when… — Madeleine L'Engle Feels Copy Share Image
Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state… — Madeleine L'Engle Actor Copy Share Image
“In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the… — Madeleine L'Engle Tadpole Stage Copy Share Image
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a… — Madeleine L'Engle War Copy Share Image
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations… — Madeleine L'Engle Explanation 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 Baby Copy Share Image
“Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave. “Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible… — Madeleine L'Engle Cave Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn… — Madeleine L'Engle Ants Copy Share Image
“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to… — Madeleine L'Engle Century 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 Drown Copy Share Image
“... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability." "...… — Madeleine L'Engle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Archaic Copy Share Image
“Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes… — Madeleine L'Engle Eyes Looked Copy Share Image
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through… — Madeleine L'Engle Bed Copy Share Image
“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have… — Madeleine L'Engle Ads Copy Share Image
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked… — Madeleine L'Engle Air Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just… — Madeleine L'Engle Fairs Copy Share Image
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to… — Madeleine L'Engle Bumps Copy Share Image
“I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who… — Madeleine L'Engle Cybersecurity 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 Barefoot Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?" "Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are… — Madeleine L'Engle Arrogance 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 Art Copy Share Image
