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...
chaos impossibility
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.
art people should
Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
believe evil heaven
I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.
laughter holy heal
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.
failure exhausting
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.
new-year years old-year
A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
grief emotional long
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.
blessing rainbow holiness
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
believe angel awesome-things
Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."
faith night thinking
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.
god science possibility
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.
dream play symphony
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe ..
choices dare courses
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.
mother long may
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.