The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Best way Copy Share Image
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. — Madeleine L'Engle Being hurt Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. — Madeleine L'Engle Human relations Copy Share Image
For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Eternal Copy Share Image
“I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!” — Madeleine L'Engle Dark Copy Share Image
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. — Madeleine L'Engle Blind Copy Share Image
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love. — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. — Madeleine L'Engle Christ Copy Share Image
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Artist Copy Share Image
“It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.” — Madeleine L'Engle Balance Copy Share Image
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Calm Copy Share Image
“Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we… — Madeleine L'Engle Death Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think… — Madeleine L'Engle Brilliance 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
“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 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
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
“It’s all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I’d never start. Better… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
