We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle Cry 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
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle Answers 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
“It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it… — Madeleine L'Engle Hope Copy Share Image
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it. — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
“Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one," Mrs. Murry said. "More French toast, boys?” — Madeleine L'Engle French toast Copy Share Image
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named — Madeleine L'Engle Meg Copy Share Image
“Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said. "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.” — Madeleine L'Engle Different Copy Share Image
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. — Madeleine L'Engle Answer Copy Share Image
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — Madeleine L'Engle Frustration 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
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to… — Madeleine L'Engle Book 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
“Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too… — Madeleine L'Engle Religion 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
“The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark… — Madeleine L'Engle Answer Copy Share Image
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Heart Copy Share Image
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given… — Madeleine L'Engle Compare Copy Share Image
“Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Empty space Copy Share Image
“A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old,… — Madeleine L'Engle Believe in god Copy Share Image
what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any… — Madeleine L'Engle Giving Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
“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
“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
“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
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle Conceived Copy Share Image
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. — Madeleine L'Engle Comedy 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
