Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Home, Heart, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.26, Macmillan

• The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Children, Home

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.135, Convergent Books

• 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...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

• Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Home, Vacation, Going Away

  Madeleine L'Engle (1960). “Meet the Austins”, Laurel Leaf

• But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Moving, Home, Maturity

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

• A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Home, Self

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