Madeleine L'Engle Quotes, Thoughts and Image

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

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

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

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.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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

We do not love each other without changing each other.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

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.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

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

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

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.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

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.