Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.
- Madeleine L'Engle
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
- Madeleine L'Engle
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
- Madeleine L'Engle
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
- Madeleine L'Engle
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
- Madeleine L'Engle