Variant: 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 which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

“I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive… and open to growth”

Madeleine L'Engle

“Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.”

Madeleine L'Engle book Meet the Austins

Source: Meet the Austins

“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”

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 things for them to be.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet