I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Forget Copy Share Image
“Silence is dangerous We never permit it. Our vocabulary may not be large But there is no question that we put it… — Madeleine L'Engle Silence Copy Share Image
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. — Madeleine L'Engle Human relations Copy Share Image
“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Fewmets is my new swear word. I’m tired of all the old ones.” — Madeleine L'Engle Swear word Copy Share Image
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think… — Madeleine L'Engle Brilliance Copy Share Image
“A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night.… — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Calm Copy Share Image
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Behinds Copy Share Image
“I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I… — Madeleine L'Engle Exhausted Copy Share Image
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer. — Madeleine L'Engle Interiors Copy Share Image
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things… — Madeleine L'Engle I've learned Copy Share Image
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Felt Copy Share Image
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. — Madeleine L'Engle Exhausting 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
“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Civilization Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
