“Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends. — Madeleine L'Engle Balance 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn… — Madeleine L'Engle Ants 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
“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
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
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked… — Madeleine L'Engle 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 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
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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 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 Copy Share Image
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named — Madeleine L'Engle 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
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle Amor 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
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
This is the irrational season/ Had Mary been filled with reason/ There'd have been no room/ For the child. - Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned… — Madeleine L'Engle Courage Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle Blessing Copy Share Image
“Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
“And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.” — Madeleine L'Engle Brotherhood 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
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always… — Madeleine L'Engle Acceptance Copy Share Image
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
