“We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. — Madeleine L'Engle Coming home Copy Share Image
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We are the called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of course we have help, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Anger Copy Share Image
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind… — Madeleine L'Engle Affirmation Copy Share Image
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. — Madeleine L'Engle Another life Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two… — Madeleine L'Engle Euclid Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the… — Madeleine L'Engle Birth Copy Share Image
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here." "Oh, we don´t travel at… — Madeleine L'Engle Light years Copy Share Image
“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says… — Madeleine L'Engle Civilization Copy Share Image
“Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. “I’m all confused again.”… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. "Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be… — Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in time Copy Share Image
“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in… — Madeleine L'Engle Atoms Copy Share Image
“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide." 'What's that?" he asked sharply. "something of… — Madeleine L'Engle Grandmother Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school… — Madeleine L'Engle Age Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's always bothered… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle Attitude Copy Share Image
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