Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 17

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• You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

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  Children, Teaching, Facts

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

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  Long, Healthy, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

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  Book, Writing, Hands

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• We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

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  Life, Way, Mature

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

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  Meg, Wrinkle In Time, Equal

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• I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

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  Essence, Drunk, Ontology

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• I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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  Life, Wrinkle In Time, Stills

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.40, Obelix Books

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• We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

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  Thinking, Able, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.35, Convergent Books

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• That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

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  Food, People, Cooking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Moon by Night”, p.18, Macmillan

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• you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

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  Mind, Naked, Good Enough

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.181, Macmillan

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• Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

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  Psychics, New Years Resolution, Intuition

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.213, Macmillan

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• We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

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  Book, Light, Illumination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.97, Convergent Books

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• Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

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  Light, Dancing, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.295, Macmillan

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

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  Home, Vacation, Going Away

  Madeleine L'Engle (1960). “Meet the Austins”, Laurel Leaf

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• We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

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  Philosophical, Looks, Temporal Things

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

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  Craftsman, Dens, Prove

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.63, Macmillan

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• As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

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  Wall, Walls Have Ears, Ears

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• For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

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  Holy Ground, Light, Doors

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.40, Convergent Books

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• What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

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  Business, Self, Talking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

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  Dream, Play, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.89, Open Road Media

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• Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

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  Laughter, Holy, Heal

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.57, Convergent Books

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• 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.

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  Our World, Confusion, Shadow

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.152, Open Road Media

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

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  Community, Quality

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.153, Open Road Media

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

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  Chaos, Impossibility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Half, Littles

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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