George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

Madeleine L'Engle

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People are more than just the way they look.

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people looks way

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."

Madeleine L'Engle

mother writing son

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

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creativity color writing

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

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easter christ-on-the-cross answers

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

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viewpoints views men

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

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flying able dream

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

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sense-of-humor frustration return

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

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another-life expenses facts

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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wedding-ceremony marriage together

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

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rocks spring past

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

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throwing humility inspiring

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

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prayer heart needs

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

Madeleine L'Engle

writing book children

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

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depends balance important

When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

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celebrate body baby

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

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born journey death

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

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becoming self children

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

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unending paradox pain

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

Madeleine L'Engle

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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

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