Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
- Madeleine L'Engle
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.
- Madeleine L'Engle
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
- Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
- Madeleine L'Engle
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
- Madeleine L'Engle