“Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...” — Madeleine L'Engle Business Copy Share Image
“I like to understand things,” Meg said. “We all do. But it isn’t always possible.” — Madeleine L'Engle Learning 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
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Angry Copy Share Image
“We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.” — Madeleine L'Engle Judgement Copy Share Image
“Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.” — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
“But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.” — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
“But of course we can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” — Madeleine L'Engle Credit Copy Share Image
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all… — Madeleine L'Engle All alone Copy Share Image
“Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against… — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this… — Madeleine L'Engle Close to death 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
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring,… — Madeleine L'Engle Daffodil Copy Share Image
“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to… — Madeleine L'Engle Beautiful Copy Share Image
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of… — Madeleine L'Engle Childhood 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
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no… — Madeleine L'Engle Shock Words Copy Share Image
“Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the… — Madeleine L'Engle Moon Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Adulthood Copy Share Image
“The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling,… — Madeleine L'Engle Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace had once again been contemplating the intricate model of the tesseract. He spoke softly to his sister. “Meg, no matter… — Madeleine L'Engle Meg Looked Copy Share Image
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle Cry Copy Share Image
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. — Madeleine L'Engle Growth Copy Share Image
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy Copy Share Image
