Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science...
Madeleine L'Engle quotes about
god atheist believe
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
real taught eternity
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
mind helping
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
letting-go ashes world
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
giving ifs dies
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
pain giving littles
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
silence way vibrations
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
hopeless wrinkle-in-time
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
love-you mean loving-you
And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.
prayer self way
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.
frustration return sense-of-humor
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
meg wrinkle-in-time equal
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
essence drunk ontology
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
life wrinkle-in-time stills
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.