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...
children tin world
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.
sacred messages secular
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
humility writing thinking
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
writing world paint
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
children believe book
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.
love-is growth lines
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
war hate angel
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.
lost
... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
men play people
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.
wish asking answers
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
family dozen way
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
differences making-a-difference matter
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
people meg knows
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named
blind
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.