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But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!"
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.
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zealous
zeal
revelation
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said. "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either." --
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
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Meg's eyes were too bright. "I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt."
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hurt
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
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poetry
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn.
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If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be--we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.
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vocation
teaching
creativity
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One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is--how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact--when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We have to make decisions, and we can't make them if they're based on fear.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even greater mystery. ... The God I cry out to in anguish or joy can neither be proved nor disapproved. The hope I have that death is not the end of all our questions can neither be proved nor disproved.
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faith
god
mystery-of-life
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death?
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stars
light
world
spirit
death
fireflies
breath
blue-eyes
sight
night
eyes
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good."
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happiness
pleasure
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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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....
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. "The obligations of normal human kindness - chesed, as the Hebrew has it - that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness." I could hardly believe my ears. "But aren't we supposed to be good?" "I'm not sure." Grandfather's voice was heavy. "I do know that we're not ..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I Q does not measure a capacity for love...How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh: to love.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
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faith
life
cosmos
peace-of-mind
chaos
peace
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.
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mid-life
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see?" Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave. "Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso many y pplleasanntt thinggss tto llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik"
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance.
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stars
fireflies
rock
sun
warmth
twilight
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
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light
death
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which..
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jesus
love
iconography
icons
art
painting
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or so, I'm doing well.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.
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pain
bravery
courage
faith
fear
road
peace-of-mind
peace
danger
walk
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