Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.” — Madeleine L'Engle Peace Copy Share Image
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.” — Madeleine L'Engle Feelings Copy Share Image
“The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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
We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Are you fighting the Black Thing?” Meg asked. “Oh, yes,” Aunt Beast replied. “In doing that, we can never relax. We are… — Madeleine L'Engle Animals Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle Drama Copy Share Image
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle Destiny Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Chiefs Copy Share Image
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.” — Madeleine L'Engle Author Copy Share Image
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation… — Madeleine L'Engle Freedom 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 Bird Copy Share Image
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle Concentration Copy Share Image
“I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact,… — Madeleine L'Engle Earth Copy Share Image
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
“But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.” — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
