Madeleine L'Engle citations (223 citations, Page 7)

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Madeleine L'Engle: Citations en anglais

“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”

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Madeleine L'Engle livre A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”

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Source: A Circle of Quiet

“For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.”

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“I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.”

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Source: The Irrational Season

“If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.”

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

“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”

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Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.”

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Source: The Joys of Love

“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

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Madeleine L'Engle livre A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”

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Source: The Joys of Love

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”

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Madeleine L'Engle livre A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.”

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Madeleine L'Engle livre And Both Were Young

Source: And Both Were Young

“Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.”

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Madeleine L'Engle livre A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

“One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.”

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The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)

“It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity…. I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah… Faith is best expressed in story.”

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Newsweek interview (2004)

“It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.”

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Walking on Water (1980)

“I wrote, after an early rejection, "X turned down Wrinkle, turned it down with one hand while saying that he loved it, but didn't quite dare to do it, as it really isn't classifiable. I know it isn't really classifiable, and am wondering if i'll have to go through the usual hell with this that I seem to go through with everything I write. But this book I'm sure of. If I've ever written a book that says how I feel about God and the universe, this is it. This is my psalm of praise…”

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Section 4.10
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.”

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Section 1.16
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“One of our children when he was two or three years old used to rush at me when he had been naughty, and beat against me, and what he wanted by this monstrous behavior was an affirmation of love. And I would put my arms around him and hold him very tight until the dragon was gone and the loving small boy had returned.”

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The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)

“When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.”

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The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)

“A while ago there was an article in the New York Times about some women in Tennessee who wanted the middle grade text books removed from the school curriculum, not because they were inadequate educationally, but because these women were afraid that they might stimulate the childrens' imaginations.
What!?!
It was a good while later that I realized that the word, imagination, is always a bad word in the King James translation of the Bible. I checked it out in my concordance, and it is always bad.
Put them down in the imagination of their hearts. Their imagination is only to do evil.
Language changes. What meant one thing three hundred years ago means something quite different now. So the people who are afraid of the word imagination are thinking about it as it was defined three centuries ago, and not as it is understood today, a wonderful word denoting creativity and wideness of vision.
Another example of our changing language is the word, prevent. Take it apart into its Latin origin, and it is prevenire. Go before. So in the language of the King James translation if we read, "May God prevent us," we should understand the meaning to be, "God go before us," or "God lead us."
And the verb, to let, used to mean, stop. Do not let me, meant do not stop me. And now it is completely reversed into a positive, permissive word.”

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Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

“Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.”

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Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

“My young friend who was taught that she was so sinful the only way an angry God could be persuaded to forgive her was by Jesus dying for her, was also taught that part of the joy of the blessed in heaven is watching the torture of the damned in hell. A strange idea of joy. But it is a belief limited not only to the more rigid sects. I know a number of highly sensitive and intelligent people in my own communion who consider as a heresy my faith that God's loving concern for his creation will outlast all our willfulness and pride. No matter how many eons it takes, he will not rest until all of creation, including Satan, is reconciled to him, until there is no creature who cannot return his look of love with a joyful response of love… Origen held this belief and was ultimately pronounced a heretic. Gregory of Nyssa, affirming the same loving God, was made a saint. Some people feel it to be heresy because it appears to deny man his freedom to refuse to love God. But this, it seems to me, denies God his freedom to go on loving us beyond all our willfulness and pride. If the Word of God is the light of the world, and this light cannot be put out, ultimately it will brighten all the dark corners of our hearts and we will be able to see, and seeing, will be given the grace to respond with love — and of our own free will.”

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The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)

“As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers”

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Madeleine L'Engle livre A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

“I sometimes think God is a s--t — and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t.”

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Newsweek interview (2004)

“There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.”

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Penguins and Golden Calves (2003)

“If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”

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The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)

“What can we give a child when there is nothing left?
All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.”

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Section 4.6
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, "Your books have made me trust you."”

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Penguins and Golden Calves (2003)

“The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.”

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Section 1.5
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“I wrote A Wrinkle in Time when we were living in a small dairy farm village in New England. I had three small children to raise, and life was not easy. We lost four of our closest friends within two years by death — that's a lot of death statistically. And I really wasn't finding the answers to my big questions in the logical places. So, at the time I discovered the world of particle physics. I discovered Einstein and relativity. I read a book of Einstein's, in which he said that anyone who's not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe is as good as a burnt-out candle. And I thought, "Oh, I've found my theologian, what a wonderful thing."”

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Penguins and Golden Calves (2003)

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Madeleine L'Engle: Citations en anglais

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Richard Bach8

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