“ Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative p… Madeleine L'Engle
“ 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. Madeleine L'Engle
“ There are three ways you can live life—three again—remember that the great writers almost always do things in threes. You can live life as though it’s all a cosmic accident; we’re nothing but an irrit… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being p… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don’t forget that he never promised he’d say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . . That he c… Madeleine L'Engle
“ One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm. Madeleine L'Engle
“ 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 Madeleine L'Engle
“ Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys? Madeleine L'Engle
“ Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you, Mrs Whatsit said. Madeleine L'Engle
“ It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it may not happen. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out to be wrong, I have done it, and I must bear the responsibility. It is not somebody else’s or so… Madeleine L'Engle
