Madeleine L Engle Quotes

We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right? ~ Madeleine L'Engle

To grow up
is to find
the small part you are playing
in the extraordinary drama
written by
somebody else. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

Madeleine L'Engle said, "the great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."58 I think the same is true for churches. Each one stays with us, even after we've left, adding layer after layer to the palimpsest of our faith. ~ Rachel Held Evans

Itt iss Eevill ... "
"What is going to happen?"
"Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!" ...
"And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. " ... some of the best fighters have come from your own planet ... "
"Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked.
"Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly.
"And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

You make me absolutely fucking crazy," he said thickly. "Hate to break it to you, but I think you were there long before I came along, ~ Madeleine Urban

She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change? ~ Madeleine Thien

When all else fails, trust the library. ~ Margarita Engle

The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of having his work bought and appreciated during his lifetime; no wonder the pain was more than he could bear); the composer needs his music to be heard. Art is communication, and if there is no communication it is as though the work has been stillborn. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I would have run away
Into the forest
To live in a nest
Made of dreams
And green leaves ~ Margarita Engle

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

The Nazis' entrance upon the European stage did not, at first, alarm the British. After all, under the Versailles treaty,the size of the German army and navy was limited and the defeated country was forbidden to maintain air force. The wake-up bell began sounding only when, in March 1935, Hitler renounced the treaty and declared that his country would indeed rebuild its military. The following year, when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland, Britons were unsettled to learn that his army was already three times the legal size ad that his air force, or Luftwaffe, would surpass their own. ~ Madeleine K. Albright

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Mummy can we keep him?" Madeleine asked with the wide eyes of a burgeoning crush.
"Darling, little boys make terrible pets," Mrs. Masterson offered with a wink.
"That's not true at all, Mummy. They're hypoallergenic, much easier than dogs," Madeleine said cheekily, "and they almost never have fleas. ~ Gitty Daneshvari

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors. ~ Madeleine Stowe

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Watch little by little the night turn around. Echoes in the house; want to go up, dare not. A glow behind the screen; wish to go through, cannot. It would hurt too much, to see the swallow on her hairpin. Truly shame me, to see the phoenix in her mirror. To Hengtang I return at dawn Fading like light on a jewelled saddle. ~ Madeleine Thien

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. ~ Madeleine Albright

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. ~ Madeleine Albright

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, which are reprinted again on the next generation. And even if you never lift a shovel or plant a cabbage, every day of your life something is written upon you. And when you die, the entirety of that written record returns to the earth. All we have on this earth, all we are, is a record. Maybe the only things that persist are----copies of things. The original has long since passed away from this universe, but on and on we copy. I have devoted my miniscule life to the act of copying. ~ Madeleine Thien

An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I Q does not measure a capacity for love ... How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh: to love. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here."
"Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything," Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. "We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkle. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

[When I was hired, I was urged] not to seek a clear definition of what I'd be doing because that would also make it clear what I was not supposed to do. Be careful not to define yourself out of an interesting job. ~ Madeleine K. Albright

Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

NATO has been a thread throughout my life. ~ Madeleine Albright

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

What was a zero anyway? A zero signified nothing, all it did was tell you nothing about nothing. Still, wasn't zero also something meaningful, a number in and of itself? In jianpu notation, zero indicated a caesura, a pause or rest of indeterminate length. Did time that went uncounted, unrecorded, still qualify as time? If zero was both everything and nothing, did an empty life have exactly the same weight as a full life? Was zero like the desert, both finite and infinite? ~ Madeleine Thien

I've always thought about the theatre like a Christmas tree, all shining and bright with beautiful ornaments. But now it seems like a Christmas tree with the tinsel all tarnished and the colored balls all fallen off and broken ... '
Sure, I know what you mean ... And it's both ways ... Some of the ornaments fall and break and some stay clear and bright. Some of the tinsel gets tarnished and some stays shining and beautiful like the night before Christmas. Nothing's ever all one way. You know that. It's all mixed up and you've just got to find the part that's right for you.'
- Elizabeth and Ben ~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

Madeleine saved herself when she was abducted. Taken while she was a scared woman, one who'd once been veiwed as nothing more than weak and easily controlled, she'd proven that she had the heart of a lion, that she had the spirit of a warrior, that her strength didnt exist only in her ability to fight, but in her ability to endure, in her ability to survive.

Most importantly, through her strength and her bravery, Maddy had not only saved herself, but also Aaron: By opening her eyes and discovering that hidden deeply within the recesses of the executioner's soul, there was goodness, there was compassion, there was love and there was honor; but above it all...deep within the infinite darkness...

There was light. ~ M.S. Willis

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I ~ Madeleine L'Engle

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. ~ Madeleine Sophie Barat