Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.91, Convergent Books

• 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

• Are anybody's parents typical?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Parent, Typical, Parenthood

• If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Real, Parent, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.63, Open Road Media

• I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
  needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Punishment, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.86, Open Road Media

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