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“We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“A book comes and says, 'Write me.”

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: The Irrational Season

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

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

Madeleine L'Engle Dragons in the Waters

Source: Dragons in the Waters

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

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

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

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

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Source: A Circle of Quiet
Context: In Kenneth Grahame's beautiful book, The Wind In The Willows, Mole and Rat go to the holy island of the great god, Pan. It is a superb piece of religious writing, but because it has gone beyond fact, it is deeply upsetting and untruthful to some people. If a story is not specified as being Christian, it is not Christian. But that is not so.
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.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Poets are born knowing the language of angels.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

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

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Variant: Like and equal are not the same thing at all.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“Love is the one surprise.”

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“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.”

Madeleine L'Engle An Acceptable Time

Source: An Acceptable Time