“ In your language you have a form of poetry called a sonnet...It is a very strict form of poetry, is it not?...There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhythm… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even greater mystery. ... The God I cry out to in anguish or joy can neither be pr… Madeleine L'Engle
“ But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot… Madeleine L'Engle
“ In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have do… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; i… Madeleine L'Engle
“ As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's… Madeleine L'Engle
“ We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. Madeleine L'Engle
“ The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We are going to your father, Mrs. Which said. But where is he? Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life… Madeleine L'Engle
“ If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive. Madeleine L'Engle
