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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Madeleine L'Engle quotes about thinking

American Novelist November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007

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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own. Madeleine L'Engle
Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but he is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through. Madeleine L'Engle
What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit, with well-groomed horns and a superbly switching tail, sitting at his huge executive's desk, thinking, 'Aha! If I can substitute images for reality I can get a lot more people under my domination. Madeleine L'Engle
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. Madeleine L'Engle
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "God understands that part of us which is more than what we..."
God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are. Madeleine L'Engle
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is..."
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. Madeleine L'Engle
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way. Madeleine L'Engle
when we were children we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable, but to grow up is to except vulnerability. to be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug..."
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? Madeleine L'Engle
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The..."
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. Madeleine L'Engle
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we..."
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. Madeleine L'Engle

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