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Top 500 Madeleine L'Engle Quotes (2025 Update)
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Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “To write for children at all is an act of faith.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this – and out of nothing – can still count the hairs of my head.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers – ugly. No! I don’t want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “He’s nothing but a deformed emanation of energy.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “If I didn’t get fond I could be happy all the time.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you’re a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified; there’s the marvel. It may be that the qualified feel no need of them.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “We do not know what things look like, as you say,” the beast said. “We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “You matter. You are. Be.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don’t have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus?”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “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.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “As a child, when I came across a word I didn’t know, I didn’t stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Somehow or other, the loving parents had swallowed one of the Tempter’s hooks, and the child was given total self-indulgence, which is far from free will. He still tempts. The ancient, primordial battle to destroy Community, to shatter Trinity, still continues. Creation still groans with the pain of it. Like it or not, we’re caught in the middle.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “And I can’t say it now. I can’t say what I want to say. I hold you – I – I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I’m loving you, only it doesn’t mean anything because you aren’t afraid. You aren’t frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “This book that defied the categories has now endured for more than half a century, finding new readers in each generation. What is its secret? And what kind of person could produce such a book? Madeleine, c. 1920.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I ‘believe’ for two minutes once every month or so, I’m doing well.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “And another lovely paradox: we can be humble only when we know that we are God’s children, of infinite value, and eternally loved.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; it doesn’t hurt nearly as much as remaining open.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don’t that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn’t work that way. When the magic comes, it’s a gift.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “It’s not my brain that’s writing the book, it’s these hands of mine.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “I’m too young and the world is too old.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Her father said, “You know, my dears, 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.” “Even at a time like this?” Meg asked. The call from Calvin, the sound of her husband’s voice, had nearly broken her control. “Especially at a time like this,” her mother said gently.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn’t mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one’s own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Not so much of dying, if – I’m afraid of annihilation. Of not being.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “But I have to accept the fact that I am often unwise; that I am not always loving; that I make mistakes; that I am, in fact, human. And as Christians we are not meant to be less human than other people, but more human, just as Jesus of Nazareth was more human.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “I know our world isn’t perfect, Charles, but it’s better than this. This isn’t the only alternative! It can’t be!” “Nobody suffers here,” Charles intoned. “Nobody is ever unhappy.” “But nobody’s ever happy, either,” Meg said earnestly. “Maybe if you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy. Calvin, I want to go home.”
Madeleine L'Engle Quote: “Strangely, as much as I heard the word secular as a label on things that should be avoided by good Christians, I don’t ever remember hearing the word sacred as its opposite. Instead, I heard the words clean and safe to describe what was not deemed worldly. Clean and safe. How puny those words are. What a pitiful reduction of the grandeur of the created world and its inhabitants. What a sad commentary on the church’s understanding of the God of the universe.”
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