“ We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word Christian would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were… Madeleine L'Engle
“ How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fa… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. Madeleine L'Engle
“ In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but becaus… Madeleine L'Engle
“ The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the di… Madeleine L'Engle
“ There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Madeleine L'Engle
“ I have been wondering this summer why our love has seemed deeper, tenderer than ever before. It's taken us twenty-five years, almost, but perhaps at last we are willing to let each other be; as we are… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. Madeleine L'Engle
“ When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do hav… Madeleine L'Engle
“ When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening. Madeleine L'Engle
“ There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up int… Madeleine L'Engle
