Madeleine L'Engle quotes - page 4

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Art is communication. View quote
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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. View quote
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One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. View quote
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Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by. View quote
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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. View quote
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Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. View quote
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you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. View quote
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There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness. View quote
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God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. View quote
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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. (Madeleine L'Engle)
You see, though we travel together, we travel alone. View quote
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Poets are born knowing the language of angels. View quote
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Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically. View quote
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Love is the one surprise. View quote
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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time. View quote
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Nothing important is completely explicable. View quote
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Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) View quote
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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening. View quote
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The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. View quote
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. (Madeleine L'Engle)
We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them. View quote
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Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. View quote
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You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father. View quote
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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. View quote
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Madeleine L'Engle

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: November 29, 1918
Died: September 6, 2007
Quotes count: 230

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