Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? Yes. And people who don't love music and books. And people, John said.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.