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In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...
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pain
memories
faith
hope
grace-and-favor
grace
creator
artist
memory
creation
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
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science
intellect
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?" I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other."
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true-love
walking-on-water
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but that I will also grow into maturity, where the experience which can be acquired only through chronology will teach me how to be more aware, open, unafraid to be vulnerable, involved, committed, to accept disagreement without feeling threatened (repeat and underline this one), to understand that I cannot take myself seriously until I stop ta..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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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.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this -- and out of nothing -- can still count the hairs of my head.
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universe
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take. It is indeed a fearful gamble. 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. To marry is the biggest risk in human rel..
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marriage
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
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loss
love
goodbye
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.
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courage
faith
where-faith-meets-art
brave
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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If the work comes to the artist and says, 'Here I am, serve me,' then the job of the artist, great or small, is to serve. The amount of the artist's talent is not what it is about. Jean Rhys said to an interviewer in the , 'Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. Th..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I did so love being a star!" "Yyouu are sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Witch said, her voice faintly chiding. The Medium sat looking happily at the star-filled sky in her ball, smiling, and nodding and chuckling gently. But Meg noticed that her eyes were drooping, and suddenly her head fell forward and she gave a faint snore. "Poor thing,..
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stars
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops of sweat like blood running down his face, that he might be spared the terrible cup ahead of him, the betrayal and abandonment by his friends, death on the cross. Because Jesus cried out in anguish, we may too. But our fear is less frequent and infinitely less if we are close to the Creator. Jesus, having cried out, then let his fear go, and m..
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jesus
fear
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
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creative
living
life
career
vocation
artist
creativity
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning."
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stars
sacrifice-for-gain
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath choses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And bade things of the world, and things which are despised, hath Go..
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religious
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the museum and look at all the pictures on the walls. Instead of feeling my own insignificance I want to go straight home and paint." 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. This surge of creativity ha..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms for us that love is stronger than hate, blessings stronger than cursing.
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god
questions
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
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happiness
hospitality
dinner
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it's a grand and exciting battle. I know it's hard for you to understand about size, how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy. You think about that, and maybe it won't seem strange to you that some of our very best fighters have come..
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mankind
earth
light
jesus
god
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and killed by an enormous falling beam. This was his moment of realization that he did not live in a rational world but a world in which men's lives can be cut off by a random blow on the head, and the discovery shook him so deeply that he was impelled..
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randomness
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group...If a child in their classrooms does not succeed with his peer group, then it would seem to many that both child and teacher have failed. Have they? If we ever, God forbid, manage to make each child succeed with his peer group, we will produce a race of bland an..
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the-arts
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
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love
perished
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Maybe 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 could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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It was not an end, it was a beginning.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words. "My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there was no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be ab..
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fear
family
love
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