Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
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The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
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We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.
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A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.
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you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
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My protagonists, male and female, are me.
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There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
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Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made
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For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
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If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
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Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
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Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.
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That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
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We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
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I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
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We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
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Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
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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. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.
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The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
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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.
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If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
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We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
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When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
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Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
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our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.
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I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
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Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.
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One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
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Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
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Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
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Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.
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