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
“It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live… — Madeleine L'Engle Existence Copy Share Image
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. — Madeleine L'Engle Exclusive 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 share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,… — Madeleine L'Engle Changed Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words… — Madeleine L'Engle Language Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Home Copy Share Image
“Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You… — Madeleine L'Engle Parenting Copy Share Image
“We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then.… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Helping Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
“He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was… — Madeleine L'Engle Purity Copy Share Image
Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do… — Madeleine L'Engle Healed 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 Copy Share Image
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Ancient Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.” — Madeleine L'Engle Rules Copy Share Image
