Madeleine L'Engle: Trending quotes (page 8)

“A book comes and says, 'Write me.”

“God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.”

“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 their hearts to know the source of it.”

“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”

“That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.”

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”

“You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.”

“I think that this scene is upsetting because it calls us beyond fact into the vast world of imagination, and imagination is a word of many dimensions.”

“Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.”

“Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.”

“Poets are born knowing the language of angels.”

“No! andare not the same thing at all!”

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

“Love is the one surprise.”

“Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)”

“Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.”

“Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.”

“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.”