Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle Choices Copy Share Image
“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf. — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. — Madeleine L'Engle Littles Copy Share Image
“There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Chance Copy Share Image
“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit… — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen. — Madeleine L'Engle Dozen Copy Share Image
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children… — Madeleine L'Engle Becoming Copy Share Image
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
“Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.” — Madeleine L'Engle Consumerism Copy Share Image
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. — Madeleine L'Engle Heal Copy Share Image
“Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.” — Madeleine L'Engle Feelings Copy Share Image
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of… — Madeleine L'Engle Awareness Copy Share Image
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other,… — Madeleine L'Engle Agape Copy Share Image
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both… — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
“For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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 Ahead of time Copy Share Image
