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
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.
compassion intellect feels
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
dream play symphony
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 the power of Creation behind the Universe ..
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.
males female protagonists
My protagonists, male and female, are me.
our-love humans exclusive
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
parent typical parenthood
Are anybody's parents typical?
holy-ground light doors
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.
two different language
Like and equal are two entirely different things.
love-each-other
We do not love each other without changing each other.