One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. — Madeleine L'Engle Aware Copy Share Image
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts. — Madeleine L'Engle Counts Copy Share Image
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Humans Copy Share Image
“There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.” — Madeleine L'Engle Knife Copy Share Image
“Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.” — Madeleine L'Engle Angrily Copy Share Image
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle Inspiration Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For… — Madeleine L'Engle Heaven Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Honest Copy Share Image
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle Balance Copy Share Image
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle Bride Copy Share Image
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf. — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting 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
“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 was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined… — Madeleine L'Engle Nightmares Copy Share Image
“We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water;… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict… — Madeleine L'Engle Dangerous Copy Share Image
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which… — Madeleine L'Engle Ability Copy Share Image
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
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations… — Madeleine L'Engle Explanation Copy Share Image
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Arms Copy Share Image
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Able Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Capable Copy Share Image
It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of… — Madeleine L'Engle Ashamed Copy Share Image
“If God’s peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark clouds 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 Crazy Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Chance Copy Share Image
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow… — Madeleine L'Engle Almighty Copy Share Image
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. — Madeleine L'Engle Pet Copy Share Image
“Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn’t he?” — Madeleine L'Engle Charles Copy Share Image
I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. — Madeleine L'Engle Know Copy Share Image
I do not know everything; still many things I understand. — Madeleine L'Engle Answers Copy Share Image
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth. — Madeleine L'Engle Life truth Copy Share Image
