Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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• 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• There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer… Answer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

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