Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 7

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• If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

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  Hard, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.83, Convergent Books

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• Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

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  Religious, Women, Godly

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.53, Convergent Books

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• But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

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  Stars, Rain, Moon

  Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

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• life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

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  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

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• science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

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  God, Science, Possibility

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• She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

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  Elation, Wonderful, Forget

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “And Both Were Young”, p.27, Macmillan

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• I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

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  Children, Journey, Shadow

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• We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

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  Aunt, Looks, Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

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  Anger

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “Certain Women: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

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  Block, Struggle, Mind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

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  Risk, Failing, Ifs

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• But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

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  Memories, Winter, Fire

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• Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

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  Stars, Names, Ideas

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wind in the Door”, p.206, Macmillan

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• We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

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  Thinking, Discovery

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.144, Macmillan

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• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

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  Giving, Understanding, Needs

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• For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

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  Unseen Things, Scripture, Bible Verse

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• artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

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  Artist, Needs, Mets

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• And joy is always a promise.

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  Joy, Promise

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

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  Stories, Truth Is, Humans

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• I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

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  Mother, Family Love, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

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  Answers, Infinite, Finite

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2011

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• When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

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  Creativity, Self, Firsts

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Young Unicorns”, p.202, Macmillan

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• When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

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  Baby, Body, Celebrate

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