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...
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
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.
pet way wrinkle-in-time
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
myth loses universe
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
angel knowing language
poets are born knowing the language of angels
baby body celebrate
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.
prayer heart needs
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.