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...
vulnerable
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
fall compassion sparrows
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.
marriage together wedding-ceremony
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.
taken mean compassion
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
love heart pascal
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
pain paradox unending
The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
thinking giving people
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?
dream flying able
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
inspiring humility throwing
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
balance important depends
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
men views viewpoints
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
journey born
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
wrinkle-in-time
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
moments contagious
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.