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I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.
— Margarita Engle
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If your name isn't known, then it's a very lonely feeling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.
— Nita Engle
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I have spent all my years
accepting sad truths.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle
accepting sad truths.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle
If we knew how to find
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle. — Margarita Engle
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle. — Margarita Engle
I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.
— Margarita Engle
The Little War?
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less? — Margarita Engle
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less? — Margarita Engle
Don't be afraid ... " We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."
— Madeleine L'Engle
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
— Paul Engle
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing important is completely explicable.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When
— Madeleine L'Engle
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa — Margarita Engle
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa — Margarita Engle
Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
In my dreams, I never have an age.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There is no place more lonely
Than a rich man's home. — Margarita Engle
Than a rich man's home. — Margarita Engle
Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.
— Madeleine L'Engle
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.
— Lou Engle
Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know
any of us. — Madeleine L'Engle
any of us. — Madeleine L'Engle
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream.
— Lou Engle
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik
— Madeleine L'Engle
That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle
-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
— Madeleine L'Engle
She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
— Paul Engle
Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
— Madeleine L'Engle
That is how I think of peace
and peace of mind - as timid birds
that we have to search for,
not bold ones that come
looking for us. — Margarita Engle
and peace of mind - as timid birds
that we have to search for,
not bold ones that come
looking for us. — Margarita Engle
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Anger is like a disease.
You can catch it.
You can give it. — Margarita Engle
You can catch it.
You can give it. — Margarita Engle
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.
— Robert F. Engle
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves ...
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!
— Madeleine L'Engle
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.
— Paul Engle
Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Believing takes practice.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
— Madeleine L'Engle
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
— Madeleine L'Engle
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.
— Madeleine L'Engle