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
two different language
Like and equal are two entirely different things.
marriage self woven
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.
love-each-other
We do not love each other without changing each other.
needs lord
There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.
goodbye firsts strange
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
letting-go plato mean
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 of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.
broken promise way
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 not the worst kind there is.
religious flower rocks
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
artist want helping
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 he has found.
dare universe
Yes! I dare disturb the universe.
moving home maturity
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
life-and-love taken writing
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.
risk failing ifs
If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
writing discipline effort
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.