To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and… — Madeleine L'Engle I can Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. — Madeleine L'Engle Drunk Copy Share Image
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle Answers 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
“Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg,” her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting Copy Share Image
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. — Madeleine L'Engle Belief Copy Share Image
you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty. — Madeleine L'Engle Dirty Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Agree Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first… — Madeleine L'Engle Adam Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. — Madeleine L'Engle Asking Copy Share Image
“But a planet can also become dark because of “too strong a desire for security … the greatest evil there is.” Meg… — Madeleine L'Engle Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Chemistry Copy Share Image
What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by… — Madeleine L'Engle Accepted Copy Share Image
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely… — Madeleine L'Engle And love 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
“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 Darkness Copy Share Image
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible. — Madeleine L'Engle Friendship Copy Share Image
“How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly… — Madeleine L'Engle Poetry Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Artist Copy Share Image
“Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.” — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what… — Madeleine L'Engle Confusion Copy Share Image
