All Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
- I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded… Been
- To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what… Chattering
- A new year can begin only because the old year ends. Begin
- Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it… Emotional
- To be born is to start the journey towards death. Born
- Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. Blessing
- Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome… Afraid
- Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" Answer
- There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer… Answer
- As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To… Art
- When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is… Brilliance
- I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every… Answers
- A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to… Affirmation
- Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. Choice
- Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. Heal
- The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way. All
- In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. Able
- If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very… Binds
- Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what… Artist
- We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are,… All
- When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is… All
- We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin… All
- Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… Control
- To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. Biggest
- When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to… Excruciating