Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.
- Madeleine L'Engle
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
- Madeleine L'Engle
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
- Madeleine L'Engle