Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 5

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• Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

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  Hopeless, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.40, Macmillan

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• We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

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  Christian, Mean, Artist

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• When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

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  Christian, Art, Book

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

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• Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

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  Integrity, Humility, Quality

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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• As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

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  God, Mean, People

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

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• A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

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  Distance, Science, Two

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

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  Song, Stars, Waiting

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Believing takes practice.

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  Believe, Practice

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.217, Macmillan

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• Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

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  Writing, Form, Given

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Apr 23, 2016

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• My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

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  Religious, Flower, Rocks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.24, WaterBrook

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• I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

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  Views, Point Of View

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• We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

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  Believe, Order, Fascination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

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  People, Trustworthy, Trusted

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• To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

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  Intimate, Share, Poetry Is

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• 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.

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  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

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

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• Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

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  Blessing, Rainbow, Holiness

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• People are more than just the way they look.

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  People, Looks, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2017

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• It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . . The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.

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  Beautiful, Laughter, Reality

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

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  Fire, Wrath, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015

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• If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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  Hurt, Joy, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

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  Journey, Light, Each Day

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

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  Dream, Flying, Able

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• To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

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  Risk, Relation, Wedding Ceremony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

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  Wedding, Hurt, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

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  Pain, Writing, Joy

  "The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.

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