Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't ...

Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, e...

Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They ...

Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silen...

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth...

Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who wi...

Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he reali...

Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the ...

Lords of blue and Lords of gold,Lords of wind and waters wild,Lords of time that's growing old,When ...

At Tara in this fateful hour,I place all Heaven with its power,And the sun with its brightness,And t...

There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking fo...

Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to hims...

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar be...

A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky cloud...

If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get ba...

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's t...

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved...

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the ca...

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. W...

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili...

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be...

Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working wit...

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain ad...

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace not...

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succ...

Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burnin...

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It...

One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner gues...

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate mu...

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

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

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and...

Emily looked over at Courtney. He was still asleep. For a long time she had thought that if you love...

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Trut...

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven ...

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't...

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer an...

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...

Is it that bad, Mrs. Bowen?" Clement asked.Emily shook her head. "Gertrude's been hurt and so she's ...

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...

In my dreams, I never have an age.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...

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

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

I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religio...

All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population wh...

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make ou...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,...

The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...

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

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization,...

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we ca...

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...

If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in ...

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro...

And we mustn't lose our sense of humor," Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadl...

In reading we must become creators.

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.I Name you Calvin.I Name you Mr. Jenkins.I Name you Proginoskes....

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product...

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant c...

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

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is ope...

It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to ...

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronolog...

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, ...

The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Tho...

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which crea...

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, invo...

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get s...