Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 4

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• Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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  Knowledge, Truth Is, Eternal

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.86, Macmillan

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• If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

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  Language, Mankind, Humans

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

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  Morning, People, Bird

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Home, Self

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• Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

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  Stars, Wind, Listening

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.387, Obelix Books

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• As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

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  God Is Love, Concerned, Absolutes

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• There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

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  Sacred, Messages, Secular

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.45, Convergent Books

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• I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

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  Children, Believe, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?”, p.987, Macmillan

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• The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

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  Pain, Paradox, Unending

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2011

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• 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.

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  Children, Ideas, Parent

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

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• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

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  Children, Self, Becoming

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

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  Children, Book, Mind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.138, Open Road Media

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• God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

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  Thinking

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art".

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• When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

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  Children, Book, Writing

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• On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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  Love, Pain, Deep Thought

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• You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

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  Credit, Talent

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• Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

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  Children, Stories, Way

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.223, Obelix Books

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• Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

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  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

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  Two, Stories, Way

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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 . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

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  Lost Ones, Sheep, Grace

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

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  Art, Prayer, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

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• There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

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  Darkness, Dazzling

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.

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  Lying, Thinking, Sweaters

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• Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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  Safety, Guarantees, Goodness

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2012

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• There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

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  Children, Tin, World

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.219, Macmillan

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