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I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. — Madeleine L'Engle

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. — Madeleine L'Engle

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. — Madeleine L'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

A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — 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

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

Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So — Madeleine L'Engle

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. — Madeleine L'Engle

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. — 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

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. — Madeleine L'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

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — 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

Nothing important is completely explicable. — 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

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view. — 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

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

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

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. — Madeleine L'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

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

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

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle

All of life is a story — Madeleine L'Engle

To grow up
is to find
the small part you are playing
in the extraordinary drama
written by
somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. — Madeleine L'Engle

That's a sure way to tell about somebody
the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. — Madeleine L'Engle

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been. — Madeleine L'Engle

To write for children at all is an act of faith. — Madeleine L'Engle

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time. — Madeleine L'Engle

We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle

I love, therefore I am vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it. — 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

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. — Madeleine L'Engle

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. — Madeleine L'Engle

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things. — Madeleine L'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

I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment. — 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

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. — 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

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

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

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — 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

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

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

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

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

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand. — 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

Believing takes practice. — Madeleine L'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

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know
any of us. — 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

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

Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. — Madeleine L'Engle

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. — 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