Madeleine L'Engle quotes - page 2

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it. (Madeleine L'Engle)
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. View quote
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That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. View quote
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The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed. View quote
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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe. View quote
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast. View quote
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Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. View quote
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What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid. View quote
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two. (Madeleine L'Engle)
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. View quote
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Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. View quote
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Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. View quote
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The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. View quote
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. View quote
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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. View quote
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There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid by providing them with "explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”. View quote
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We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. View quote
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The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. View quote
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The joys of love... last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. (Madeleine L'Engle)
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. View quote
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The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. View quote
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A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. View quote
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I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. View quote
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