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I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

Madeleine L'Engle

Laughter, Never Forget, Forget

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.110, Convergent Books

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But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

Madeleine L'Engle

Art, Live Life, Creativity

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But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

Madeleine L'Engle

Creativity, Alive, Creator

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.75, Convergent Books

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A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

Madeleine L'Engle

Facts, Mystic, Persons

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I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Believe, Punishment, Long

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.86, Open Road Media

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... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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Lost

Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.172, Macmillan

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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

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Acceptance, Intellectual, Intuition

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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

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Children, Book, Mind

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.138, Open Road Media

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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.

Madeleine L'Engle

Men, Play, People

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Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Madeleine L'Engle

Silence, Sides, Communion

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.107, Convergent Books

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

Madeleine L'Engle

Art, Names, Giving

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

Madeleine L'Engle

Faith, Filling, Raised

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.74, Convergent Books

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what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love Is, Light, Giving

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.66, Open Road Media

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It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Madeleine L'Engle

Faith, Peace, Ubuntu

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.15, Open Road Media

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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

Madeleine L'Engle

Easter, Answers, Causes

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Real, Artist

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.8, Open Road Media

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To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Madeleine L'Engle

Mean, Way, Walking On Water

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.29, Convergent Books

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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Madeleine L'Engle

Knowledge, Understanding, Way

Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

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I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

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I've Learned, Children Book, Childrens Book

Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.9, Obelix Books

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The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

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Teacher, Children, Oxygen

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.30, Open Road Media

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Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Madeleine L'Engle

Knowledge, Truth Is, Eternal

Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.86, Macmillan

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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.

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Hate, War, Angel

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When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Ideas, Parent

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.91, Convergent Books

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When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Book, Writing

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Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Madeleine L'Engle

Time, White Collar, Timing And Life

Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.96, Macmillan

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Born: November 29, 1918
Died: September 6, 2007
Occupation: Writer
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