“ Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp Madeleine L'Engle
“ We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all th… Madeleine L'Engle
“ 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… Madeleine L'Engle
“ You and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. Madeleine L'Engle
“ We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions,… Madeleine L'Engle
“ This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Meg’s eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. Madeleine L'Engle
“ It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, What do you think you and H… Madeleine L'Engle
“ I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand thinga for them to be. Madeleine L'Engle
“ Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that… Madeleine L'Engle
