Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 7

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• Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

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  Religious, Art, Categories

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.24, Convergent Books

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• Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

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  Marriage, Self, Woven

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

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  Needs, Lord

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

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• Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

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  Men, Matter, Reason

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

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  Country, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

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  Art, Mean, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.16, Convergent Books

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• Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

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  Religious, Women, Godly

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.53, Convergent Books

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• I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

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  Mind, Affirmation, Glory

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• there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

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  Family, Dozen, Way

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• The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

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  Inspirational, Science, Light

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• It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

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  Letting Go, Ashes, World

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.95, Macmillan

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• If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

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  Hard, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.83, Convergent Books

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• We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

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  Life And Love, Taken, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle, Library of Congress (1984). “Dare to be Creative!: A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983”, Washington : Library of Congress

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• wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

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  Laughter, Heaven

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.69, Macmillan

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• She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

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  Elation, Wonderful, Forget

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “And Both Were Young”, p.27, Macmillan

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• We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

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  Aunt, Looks, Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.98, Macmillan

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• science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

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  God, Science, Possibility

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• Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

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  Anger

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “Certain Women: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

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  Happiness, Hurt, Laughter

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.130, Macmillan

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• The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

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  Block, Struggle, Mind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

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  Stars, Names, Ideas

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wind in the Door”, p.206, Macmillan

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• But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

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  Memories, Winter, Fire

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• I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

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  Children, Journey, Shadow

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• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

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  Artist, Needs, Mets

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