As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast Madeleine L'Engle beastauntlooks The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being. Madeleine L'Engle lightinspirationalscience Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might. Madeleine L'Engle thoughtfulinspiringart We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind. Madeleine L'Engle landriverswind 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 starsrealsong But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive. Madeleine L'Engle creatorcreativityalive I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be. Madeleine L'Engle moodagechildren wherever there's laughter, there is heaven Madeleine L'Engle laughterheaven It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. Madeleine L'Engle hemimaginationworld Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. Madeleine L'Engle categoriesreligiousart There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. Madeleine L'Engle dazzlelightdarkness Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person. Madeleine L'Engle motivationalinspirationalmen There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! Madeleine L'Engle causeseasteranswers there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen. Madeleine L'Engle dozenfamilyway An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. Madeleine L'Engle laughtergivinglaughing But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta Madeleine L'Engle firewintermemories artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. Madeleine L'Engle metsartistneeds A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L'Engle distancetwoscience Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? Madeleine L'Engle givingpeoplethinking God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Madeleine L'Engle wisefoolishworld
