I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it. Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle More Quotes From 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 acceptancemeanthinking Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth. Madeleine L'Engle stakes Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) Madeleine L'Engle denscraftsmanprove As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.) Madeleine L'Engle walls-have-earswallears For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground. Madeleine L'Engle holy-groundlightdoors The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way. Madeleine L'Engle selfprayerway 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 holinessholywaiting In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. Madeleine L'Engle lineswritingbelieve Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity? Madeleine L'Engle wrinkle-in-timedignityfeet I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. Madeleine L'Engle creativityperfectart With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. Madeleine L'Engle explanationablehumans A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate. Madeleine L'Engle teamworkjobsbook Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests. Madeleine L'Engle joyfultests We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Madeleine L'Engle virtuegrowshumans Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have. Madeleine L'Engle eyedreamfather To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. Madeleine L'Engle growing-upgrowsdrama If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. Madeleine L'Engle writingmayart If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words. Madeleine L'Engle not-good-enoughbookchildren Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. Madeleine L'Engle intellectcompassionfeels We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. Madeleine L'Engle suspiciousgrace
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