Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly — Madeleine L'Engle Friend Copy Share Image
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. — Madeleine L'Engle Darkness Copy Share Image
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Grief Copy Share Image
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Angry Copy Share Image
“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Art Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
“For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.” — Madeleine L'Engle Eternal Copy Share Image
“We want nothing from you that you do without grace,” Mrs Whatsit said, “or that you do without understanding.” — Madeleine L'Engle Grace Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one… — Madeleine L'Engle Angel Copy Share Image
“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.” — Madeleine L'Engle Sonnet Copy Share Image
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we… — Madeleine L'Engle Excruciating pain Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Children Copy Share Image
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We're not peculiar." "Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been… — Madeleine L'Engle Divorce Copy Share Image
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the… — Madeleine L'Engle Astronomy Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
“Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here!" Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out… — Madeleine L'Engle Space travel Copy Share Image
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of… — Madeleine L'Engle Alive Copy Share Image
“Silence is dangerous We never permit it. Our vocabulary may not be large But there is no question that we put it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that… — Madeleine L'Engle Books Copy Share Image
“In a moment of crisis we don't act out of reasoned judgment but on our conditioned reflexes. We may be able to… — Madeleine L'Engle Body work Copy Share Image
“Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down… — Madeleine L'Engle Faith Copy Share Image
“If the work comes to the artist and says, 'Here I am, serve me,' then the job of the artist, great or… — Madeleine L'Engle Art 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...If I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Book Copy Share Image
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities. — Madeleine L'Engle God Copy Share Image
“Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.” — Madeleine L'Engle Collapse Copy Share Image
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle Hope Copy Share Image
