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...
names wrinkles wrinkle-in-time
A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
children growing-up suicidal
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
husband father lovers
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
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How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.
healing circles broken
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.
laughter heaven
wherever there's laughter, there is heaven
prayer monologues interiors
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
believe thinking growth
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth
men plus knows
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
facts another-life expenses
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
dream sweet home
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.
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God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.