“ I didn't mean to tell you, Mrs. Whatsit faltered. I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I did so love being a star! Yyouu are sstill verry yyoungg, Mrs Witch said, her voice faintly ch… Madeleine L'Engle
“ How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or s… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or h… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Charles Wallace looked troubled. I don’t think it’s that. It’s being able to understand a sort of language, like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees.… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Charles Wallace had once again been contemplating the intricate model of the tesseract. He spoke softly to his sister. Meg, no matter what happens, even if Dennys is right about her heart, remember th… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified;… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But his love is greater than all our hate and he will not rest until Judas has turned to him, until Satan has turned to him, until dark has turned to him; until we can all, all of us without exception… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometime… Madeleine L'Engle
“ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we may be made to endure their punishment. Guilt cannot be transmitted. We are linked to Adam on… Madeleine L'Engle
“ A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. Madeleine L'Engle
“ And you, behind the footlight's lure,Kissing an actress on the stage,Will leave her presence there, I'm sure,As I my people on the page.And yet - I love you, darling, yetI sat with someone at a tableA… Madeleine L'Engle
