Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 4

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• Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Men, Plus, Knows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.61, Macmillan

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• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

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  Love, Jesus, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

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  Believe, Evil, Heaven

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• As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

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  God Is Love, Concerned, Absolutes

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• If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

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  Morning, People, Bird

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• Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

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  Stars, Wind, Listening

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.387, Obelix Books

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• There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

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  Sacred, Messages, Secular

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.45, Convergent Books

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• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Work

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

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  Fall, Compassion, Care

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• All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

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  Lost Ones, Sheep, Grace

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

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  Prayer, Home, Self

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• Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

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  Writing, Form, Given

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Apr 23, 2016

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• I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

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  Views, Point Of View

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• God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

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  Thinking

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art".

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• Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

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  Blessing, Rainbow, Holiness

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• Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

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  Beautiful, Growing Up, People

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• We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

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  Christian, Mean, Artist

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• If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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  Hurt, Joy, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

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• In reading we must become creators.

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  Reading, Creator

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.31, Convergent Books

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• There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

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  Darkness, Dazzling

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.57, Macmillan

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• To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

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  Intimate, Share, Poetry Is

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• The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

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  Pain, Paradox, Unending

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2011

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• There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

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  Two, Stories, Way

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• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

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  Children, Self, Becoming

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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  Love, Pain, Deep Thought

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