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...
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.
pain sides stills
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
memories winter fire
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta
people feelings how-you-feel
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.
aunt looks beast
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
important
Nothing important is completely explicable.
children thinking giving
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
elation wonderful forget
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.
sheep lost-ones grace
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
happiness hurt laughter
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
insane asylums illness
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.