God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From Madeleine L'Engle Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. Madeleine L'Engle pascal heart love As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers Madeleine L'Engle jumping flower children Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love. Madeleine L'Engle stars waiting song Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. Madeleine L'Engle great-art culture art If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves. Madeleine L'Engle hard ifs Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self. Madeleine L'Engle holiness self art I love, therefore I am vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle vulnerable Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found. Madeleine L'Engle artist want helping 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 circles broken healing Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means. Madeleine L'Engle artist taken mean It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it. Madeleine L'Engle writing order book Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. Madeleine L'Engle contagious moments Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf. Madeleine L'Engle golden accepting love-is 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 giving children thinking A good laugh heals a lot of hurts. Madeleine L'Engle laughter hurt happiness When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. Madeleine L'Engle husband lovers father Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-time poets are born knowing the language of angels Madeleine L'Engle language angel knowing Nothing important is completely explicable. Madeleine L'Engle important Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-time pet way
