Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 3

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• In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Stars, Moving

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 02, 2016

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• God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

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  Faith, Filling, Raised

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.74, Convergent Books

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• To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

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  Mean, Way, Walking On Water

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.29, Convergent Books

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• The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

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  Love Is, Growth, Valleys

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Art, Names, Giving

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

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• Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

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  Blind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Men, Play, People

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• Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Doe, Stories, Littles

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• ... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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  Lost

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.172, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Love Is, Light, Giving

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

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• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

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  Knowledge, Understanding, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

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• 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

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• Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dare, Universe

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• I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

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  Laughter, Never Forget, Forget

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.110, Convergent Books

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• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

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  Life, Attitude, Integrity

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2016

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• I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

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  I've Learned, Children Book, Childrens Book

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.9, Obelix Books

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• Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

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  Silence, Sides, Communion

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.

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  Hate, War, Angel

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• Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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  Men, Plus, Knows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

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  Time, White Collar, Timing And Life

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.96, Macmillan

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• I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

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  Believe, Evil, Heaven

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• A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

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  Facts, Mystic, Persons

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• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Work

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.90, Open Road Media

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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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Real, Artist

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fall, Compassion, Care

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