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“If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“Nothing important is completely explicable.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Section 3.9
Source: The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“Meg, I give you your faults."

"My faults!" Meg cried.

"Your faults."

"But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"

"Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Section 4.14
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”

Madeleine L'Engle

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”

Madeleine L'Engle

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art