Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

But, like all human beings, she still had unfulfilled longings. She could still be as lonely and frightened as a child, and with as little reason.

With all our human struggling for power we cannot heal ourselves, so God, with wondrous love, gives away power, gives away himself so that we may be healed.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

John looked up from where he was crouched beside the fire, feeding it little bites of driftwood, and said, 'We'd better decide who wants hot dogs and who wants hamburgers because we haven't got too much time.' Everybody began talking about food, and things were better. There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

The Greeks in their wisdom had four words for our one, love: there was charity, agapé; sexual love, eros; family love, storgé; friendship, philia.

When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.

I've gone out alone and bellowed in rage at God at the top of my lungs. But the fact that I bellow at him I suppose proves that I think he's there, doesn't it? Go ahead and be mad at God if you feel like it, Vicky. [...] But remember when you're yelling at God, what you're doing is saying, Do it MY way, God, not YOUR way, but MY way

Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.

Only obedience,' he said aloud to the room, as though to convince himself, 'is perfect freedom.

You're not responsible for how you feel. You're responsible for what you do

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.