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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Madeleine L'Engle quotes

American Novelist November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007

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Madeleine L'Engle quote: "And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at..."
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and..."
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. Madeleine L'Engle
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 Madeleine L'Engle
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had... Madeleine L'Engle
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
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a..."
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. Madeleine L'Engle
Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes contracted. When the final point of black was lost in blue he turned away from the red eyes, looked at Meg, and smiled sweetly, but the smile was not Charles Wallaces smile. Madeleine L'Engle
... our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time."
If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time. Madeleine L'Engle
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.... Madeleine L'Engle
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling?..."
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy."
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. Madeleine L'Engle
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage. Madeleine L'Engle
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace. Between myself and the powers of darkness! Madeleine L'Engle

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