Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
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
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
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.
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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.
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.
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.
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
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.
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
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
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.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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.
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.