Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.
- Madeleine L'Engle
there are powers of love in the universe, and as long as you respond with love, they'll help you.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Advent is not a time to declare, but to listen, to listen to whatever God may want to tell us through the singing of the stars, the quickening of a baby, the gallantry of a dying man.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create
- Madeleine L'Engle
When two people, lovers, or sometimes friends, have an enduring care for each other, allow each other to be human, faulted, flawed, but real, then being human becomes a glorious thing to be. If the human race ever makes progress, that is how.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
- Madeleine L'Engle
They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock— wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching— and eyes how many eyes can a drive of dragons have? and small jets of flame
- Madeleine L'Engle
there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of the joy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
- Madeleine L'Engle