Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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• We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

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  Believe, Heart, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.172, Convergent Books

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• We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

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  Courage, Thinking, Bravery

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.58, Convergent Books

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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• If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

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  Family, Honor, Important

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• I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

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  Faith, Prayer, Wings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

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  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

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  Race, Listening, Stories

  Madeleine L'Engle (1989). “Sold Into Egypt: Joseph's Journey Into Human Being”, Shaw

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• What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn.

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  Christian, Believe, Broken

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• But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

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  Grief, Feet, Water

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

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  Believe, Impossible, Kind

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• Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Matter

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.400, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Writing, World, Paint

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

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  Men, Views, Viewpoints

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• In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

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  Jobs, Real, Humility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.55, Convergent Books

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• We do not love each other without changing each other.

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  Love Each Other

  Madeleine L'Engle (1983). “And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

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  Home, Heart, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.26, Macmillan

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• When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

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  Faith, Night, Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (1983). “And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• 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

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  Motivational, Believe, Thinking

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• If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

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  Love, Relationship, Moving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

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  Writing, Artist, Way

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• To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

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  Prayer, Moving, May

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.123, Convergent Books

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• If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

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  Creative, Risk, Failing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

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  God, Atheist, Believe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.30, Convergent Books

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• Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

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  Letting Go, Creativity, Eye

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• 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.

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  Life, Beautiful, Children

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2016

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