Madeleine L'Engle quotes - page 8

I sometimes think God is a s--t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t. (Madeleine L'Engle)
I wrote A Wrinkle in Time when we were living in a small dairy farm village in New England. I had three small children to raise, and life was not easy. We lost four of our closest friends within two years by death - that's a lot of death statistically. And I really wasn't finding the answers to my big questions in the logical places. So, at the time I discovered the world of particle physics. I discovered Einstein and relativity. I read a book of Einstein's, in which he said that anyone who's not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe is as good as a burnt-out candle. And I thought, "Oh, I've found my theologian, what a wonderful thing." View quote
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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. View quote
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It is so great a thing to be an infinitesimal part of this immeasurable orchestra the music bursts the heart, And from this tiny plosion all the fragments join: Joy orders the disunity until the song is one. View quote
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Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have advice for people who want to write. View quote
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When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. View quote
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We rebel against the impossible. I sense a wish in some professional religion-mongers to make God possible, to make him comprehensible to the naked intellect, domesticate him so that he's easy to believe in. View quote
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The best I can ask for is that this love, which has been built on countless failures, will continue to grow. I can say no more than that this is mystery, and gift, and that somehow or other, through grace, our failures can be redeemed and blessed. View quote
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We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Kairos can sometimes enter, penetrate, break through chronos: the child at play, the painter at his easel, Serkin playing the Appassionata are in kairos. The saint in prayer, friends around the dinner table, the mother reaching out her arms for her newborn baby are in kairos. View quote
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I'm a female. Why would I give all the best ideas to a male? View quote
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Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. View quote
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Language is often changed by writers. View quote
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In kairos that part of us which is not consumed in the burning is wholly awake. View quote
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I have never served a work as I would like to, but I do try, with each book, to serve to the best of my ability, and this attempt at serving is the greatest privilege and the greatest joy that I know. View quote
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Alike and Equal are not the same. View quote
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. View quote
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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. View quote
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Unless a writer works constantly to improve and refine the tools of his trade they will be useless instruments if and when the moment of inspiration, of revelation, does come. This is the moment when a writer is spoken through, the moment that a writer must accept with gratitude and humility, and then attempt, as best he can, to communicate to others. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. View quote
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Often the only way to look clearly at this extraordinary universe is through fantasy, fairy tale, myth. View quote
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I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately. View quote
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After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light. The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way. View quote
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