Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Peace, Ubuntu

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.15, Open Road Media

• The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Teacher, Children, Oxygen

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.30, Open Road Media

• Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

• We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 03, 2016

• As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.16, Convergent Books

• I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Believe, Here I Am

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.18, Convergent Books

• It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Morning, Queens, Believe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.69, Convergent Books

• Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Reality, Thinking, Television Commercials

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

• Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Giving, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.26, Macmillan

• It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Laughter, Giving Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.68, Macmillan

• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Laughter, Laughing, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

• Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Giving, Understanding, Needs

• what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love Is, Light, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.66, Open Road Media

• If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fate, Giving, Sock

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.89, Macmillan

• Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Pain, Giving, Littles

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.62, Macmillan

• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Always Trying, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

• If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Giving, Dies, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.111, Macmillan

• George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Son, Men, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.25, Convergent Books

• Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Names, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Laughter, Selfish, Real

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle (Section 1.10), 1972.

• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

• What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Giving, Left

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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