God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom Copy Share Image
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? — Madeleine L'Engle Dignity Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush… — Madeleine L'Engle Animals Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one… — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.” — Madeleine L'Engle Sonnet Copy Share Image
“For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.” — Madeleine L'Engle Eternal Copy Share Image
“We want nothing from you that you do without grace,” Mrs Whatsit said, “or that you do without understanding.” — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. — 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
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
“You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.” “For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very… — Madeleine L'Engle Evening Copy Share Image
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God… — Madeleine L'Engle Creator Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
“It isn’t just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we’ve… — Madeleine L'Engle Unreason Copy Share Image
“Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out… — Madeleine L'Engle Space travel 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 Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the… — Madeleine L'Engle Bread and wine 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
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star. — Madeleine L'Engle Butterfly Copy Share Image
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
“Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests. — Madeleine L'Engle Happiness Copy Share Image
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
