Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 6

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some of the best fighters have come from your own planet…" "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who’s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Light, Darkness

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• A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

  Madeleine L'Engle

  People, Meg, Knows

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.116, Obelix Books

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• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Jesus, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lying, Believe, Understanding

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• Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Taken, Mean, Artist

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Hard Work, Order

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Monologues, Interiors

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• I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Good Marriage, Very Good, Suspects

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

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• Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Marriage, Self, Woven

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Imagination, World, Hem

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Nothing important is completely explicable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Important

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Humility, Throwing

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2011

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• There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Needs, Lord

  Madeleine L'Engle (1983). “And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  People, Feelings, Earth

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.192, Macmillan

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• God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wise, World, Foolish

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.184, Macmillan

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• We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life And Love, Taken, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle, Library of Congress (1984). “Dare to be Creative!: A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983”, Washington : Library of Congress

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• Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Categories

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.24, Convergent Books

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• It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Ashes, World

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.95, Macmillan

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• I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mind, Affirmation, Glory

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• Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Men, Matter, Reason

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Country, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

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  Art, Mean, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.16, Convergent Books

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• How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Compassion, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.33, Open Road Media

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