Madeleine L'Engleyou and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2… ▶371ThoughtTime
Madeleine L'EngleMaybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I … ▶372HumanityLifeLove
Madeleine L'EngleDon't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2013). A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy, p.213, Macmillan373ThoughtTime
Madeleine L'EngleAnd joy is always a promise. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). A Circle of Quiet, p.77, Open Road Media351Reading
Madeleine L'EngleIn your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has … ▶362Reflection
Madeleine L'EngleAnd I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which… ▶352LoveTime
Madeleine L'EngleGod understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are. ✨ Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art.374HopeReflectionThought
Madeleine L'EngleWe are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. ✨ Twitter post from Sep 10, 2016363Humanity
Madeleine L'EngleThe naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2010). A Wind in the Door, p.98, Macmillan352Sadness
Madeleine L'EngleA book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and co… ▶363Reading
Madeleine L'EngleQui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2012). A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition,… ▶363Time
Madeleine L'EngleLe coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2013). A Wrinkle in Time… ▶363LoveTime
Madeleine L'EngleYou're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2008). The Joys of Love, p.93, Macmillan341Love
Madeleine L'EngleI don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be. ✨ Madeleine L’Engle (2014). A Wrinklein Ti… ▶363ReadingTime
Madeleine L'EngleAn infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a perso… ▶352HumanityHumorLove
Madeleine L'EngleWe are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly … ▶364ReadingTimeTruth
Madeleine L'EngleA book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2012). A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary C… ▶353LifeReadingTime
Madeleine L'EngleThou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.375Thought
Madeleine L'EngleI like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). … ▶353HumanityPoliticsSadness
Madeleine L'EngleBecause you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). The Irrational Season, p.50, Open Road Media353Truth
Madeleine L'EngleWherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, p.57, Convergent Books353HopeHumorReading
Madeleine L'EngleI think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of rea… ▶332HopeReadingSadness
Madeleine L'EngleA new year can begin only because the old year ends. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). The Irrational Season, p.5, Open Road Media376Time
Madeleine L'EngleConversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.332Life
Madeleine L'EngleMeg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you. ✨ Madelei… ▶376HumanityLifeThought
Madeleine L'EngleThe shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2017). The Crosswicks Jou… ▶321Time
Madeleine L'EngleAll children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older. ✨ Madeleine L… ▶321HopeReadingReflection
Madeleine L'EngleI do not know everything; still many things I understand. ✨ Madeleine L’Engle (2014). A Wrinklein Time Quintet, p.40, Obelix Books355ReadingTime
Madeleine L'EngleStories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.366HumanityLife
Madeleine L'EngleAnd there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2008). A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles,… ▶366LifeTruth
