When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Absolutes Copy Share Image
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse… — Madeleine L'Engle Dream Copy Share Image
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.” — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two… — Madeleine L'Engle Straight line Copy Share Image
“How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe Copy Share Image
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
“I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.” — Madeleine L'Engle Personality Copy Share Image
“I can’t do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven’s sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to… — Madeleine L'Engle Growing older Copy Share Image
I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call… — Madeleine L'Engle Acknowledge Copy Share Image
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story. — Madeleine L'Engle Closest Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn. — Madeleine L'Engle Darling Copy Share Image
“Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.” — Madeleine L'Engle Life Copy Share Image
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle Great minds Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Ask questions Copy Share Image
“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle Accepting Copy Share Image
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when… — Madeleine L'Engle Feels Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.… — Madeleine L'Engle Care Copy Share Image
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have… — Madeleine L'Engle Ads Copy Share Image
