Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science...
psychics new-years-resolution intuition
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
stars taken sunset
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
frustration return sense-of-humor
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
meg wrinkle-in-time equal
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
essence drunk ontology
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
thinking
God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
life wrinkle-in-time stills
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
morning queens believe
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
hurt growing-up children
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
thinking way able
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
food people cooking
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
art live-life creativity
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.
mind naked good-enough
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.
children light darkness
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.