Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 5

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• To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

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  Risk, Relation, Wedding Ceremony

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

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• If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

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  Language, Mankind, Humans

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

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  Fire, Wrath, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015

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• In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

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  Dream, Flying, Able

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• Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

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  Dare, Universe

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• There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

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  Children, Tin, World

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.219, Macmillan

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• I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.

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  Lying, Thinking, Sweaters

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• Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

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  Children, Stories, Way

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.223, Obelix Books

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• Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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  Safety, Guarantees, Goodness

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2012

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• As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

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  God, Mean, People

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

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• When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

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  Christian, Art, Book

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

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• Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

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  Hopeless, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.40, Macmillan

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• When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

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  Art, Prayer, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

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• A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

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  Distance, Science, Two

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

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  Credit, Talent

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• Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

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  Song, Stars, Waiting

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

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  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

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• Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

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  Integrity, Humility, Quality

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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• We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

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  Believe, Order, Fascination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

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  Art, Hard Work, Order

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

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• Believing takes practice.

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  Believe, Practice

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.217, Macmillan

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• I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

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  Good Marriage, Very Good, Suspects

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

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  Letting Go, Journey, Light

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• life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

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  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

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• No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

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  Wedding, Hurt, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

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