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...
facts mystic persons
A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.
stakes
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)
craftsman dens prove
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
hopeless wrinkle-in-time
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
essence drunk ontology
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
machines answers kind
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
darkness dazzling
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
unseen-things scripture bible-verse
For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
psychics new-years-resolution intuition
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
grandma past rocks
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
hater hurt hate-me
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
time night light
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
intimate share poetry-is
...to share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible...
virtue grows humans
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.