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...
giving understanding needs
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
safety guarantees goodness
Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.
art mean giving
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
time white-collar timing-and-life
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
depression uplifting light
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
hard ifs
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
art hard-work order
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
writing given form
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
inspirational jobs inspiration
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
wrath rocks wind
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
people doe facts
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
christian mean men
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.
risk relation wedding-ceremony
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
ive-learned children-book childrens-book
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.