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
wrinkle-in-time
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
balance important depends
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
dream flying able
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
inspiring humility throwing
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
wish asking answers
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
love heart pascal
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
marriage together wedding-ceremony
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
race listening stories
Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
creativity alive creator
But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.
pain paradox unending
The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
taken mean compassion
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
vulnerable
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
easter answers causes
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
inspirational motivational men
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.