If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Adults Copy Share Image
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. — Madeleine L'Engle Enlightening Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what… — Madeleine L'Engle Confusion Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must… — Madeleine L'Engle Beast 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 Copy Share Image
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability." "...… — Madeleine L'Engle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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 Copy Share Image
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
“But a planet can also become dark because of “too strong a desire for security … the greatest evil there is.” Meg… — Madeleine L'Engle Cybersecurity 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
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
“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
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made… — Madeleine L'Engle Beauty Copy Share Image
The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it… — Madeleine L'Engle Love Copy Share Image
“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.” — Madeleine L'Engle Mind Copy Share Image
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are. — Madeleine L'Engle Music Copy Share Image
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. — Madeleine L'Engle Drunk Copy Share Image
“But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
