If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
“I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, 'but I've discovered that I can't… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe in god Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Majors Copy Share Image
“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.” — Madeleine L'Engle Jesus Copy Share Image
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing… — Madeleine L'Engle Deaf Copy Share Image
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.” — Madeleine L'Engle Judgement Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in… — Madeleine L'Engle Confusion Copy Share Image
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. — Madeleine L'Engle Knowledge Copy Share Image
“On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don’t you, dear sister?” — Madeleine L'Engle Dear sister Copy Share Image
If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness… — Madeleine L'Engle Failing Copy Share Image
I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. — Madeleine L'Engle Knows 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 Faith Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely… — Madeleine L'Engle Compassion Copy Share Image
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
“And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.” — Madeleine L'Engle Brotherhood Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
