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
morning queens believe
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
mind naked good-enough
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
stars taken sunset
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
inspirational life creativity
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
forgiveness loving-life evening
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
life beautiful children
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
knowledge understanding way
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
teamwork jobs book
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
dream age
In my dreams, I never have an age.
book writing hands
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
home vacation going-away
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
trying littles way
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
philosophical looks temporal-things
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
machines answers kind
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.