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
lost
... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
differences making-a-difference matter
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
good-marriage very-good seems
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
sacred messages secular
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
ive-learned children-book childrens-book
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
wrath rocks wind
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
time white-collar timing-and-life
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
dream sweet home
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.
prayer monologues interiors
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
elation wonderful forget
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.
prayer heart needs
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
sheep lost-ones grace
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
myth loses universe
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
names wrinkles wrinkle-in-time
A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.