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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b8f08b2 | And you, behind the footlight's lure, Kissing an actress on the stage, Will leave her presence there, I'm sure, As I my people on the page. And yet - I love you, darling, yet I sat with someone at a table And gloried in our minds that met As sometimes strangers' minds are able To leap the bounds of times and spaces And find, in sharing wine and bread And light in one another's faces And in the words that each has said An intercourse so inti.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9229e17 | I do not think that it is naive to think that it is the tiny, particular acts of love and joy which are going to swing the balance, rather than general, impersonal charities. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e925c0d | Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 35051e7 | If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It's the knowing when that's important. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7d1c728 | When will you come and how will you come and will we be ready | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 134af4c | Pain is a partner I did not request; This is a dance I did not ask to join; whirled in a waltz when I would stop and rest, Jolted and jerked, I ache in bone and loin. Pain strives to hold me close in his embrace; If I resist and try to pull away His grasp grows tighter; closer comes his face; hotter his breath. If he is here to stay Then must I learn to dance this painful dance, Move to its rhythm, keep my lagging feet In time with his. Thu.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3026760 | There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b325bd2 | I like the name writing practices better than Creative Writing. As I have said, nobody can teach creative writing--run like mad from anybody who thinks he can. But one can teach practices, like finger exercises on the piano; one can share the tools of the trade, and what one has gleaned from the great writers: it is the great writers themselves who do the teaching, rather than the leader of a seminar. It doesn't take long for the gifted stu.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| af30eec | imagination; it's their own world, the world of their daily life, and it's our loss that so many of us grow out of it. Probably this group here tonight is the least grown-out-of-it group that could be gathered together in one place, simply by the nature of our work. We, too, can understand how Alice could walk through the mirror into the country on the other side; how often have our children almost done this themselves? And we all understan.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 157e9b8 | Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days." -- | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c22c448 | We don't know what things LOOK like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things ARE like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 67b8bb1 | Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ad89c63 | But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8e0e606 | Curled up on one of her pillows a gray fluff of kitten yawned, showing its pink tongue, tucked its head under again, and went back to sleep. | humor | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d4d3581 | Sure, go ahead." Calvin fished in his pocket and pulled out a wad of folded paper. "As a matter of fact, I have some junk of mine to finish up. Math. That's one thing I have a hard time keeping up in. I'm okay on anything to do with words, but I don't do as well with numbers." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 76cdfe0 | Oh, my darling you are not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace." | inspirational life reminder-to-self | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 4c61034 | My daughter, I am not a Mrs Whatsit, a Mrs Who, or a Mrs Which. Yes, Calvin has told me everything he could. I am a human being, and a very fallible one. But I agree with Calvin. We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 52904ee | No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e584943 | You might call IT the Boss." Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. "IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ce7f4b0 | Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c681692 | She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8f9b9b0 | and it's a planet, dears, out on the edge of a little galaxy. You can be proud that it's done so well. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| aa095f7 | And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5cffe01 | Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 22b6b89 | 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. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 099b0c0 | Mrs Whatsit was surely no longer a Mrs Whatsit. She was a marble-white body with powerful flanks, something like a horse but at the same time completely unlike a horse, for from the magnificently modeled back sprang a nobly formed torso, arms, and a head resembling a man's, but a man with a perfection of dignity and virtue, an exaltation of joy such as Meg had never before seen. No, she thought, it's not like a Greek centaur. Not in the lea.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5058880 | Just relax and don't worry over things that needn't trouble you," Mrs Whatsit said." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| cef3870 | Don't worry about Charles Wallace, Meg," her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before he went away. "There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2a6d2b8 | When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle The | Brené Brown | ||
| 2013b0b | The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, new ways of speaking and being in the world. We want our teens to make a decision consistent with the better story of which they are a part, a decision that doesn't even feel like a decision but a script they know by heart. | Sarah Arthur | ||
| 5edc135 | The lines of love cross time and space. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7200b2f | We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7c9bc11 | A village is very much like boarding school (I was in boarding schools for ten years, so I know whereof I talk): let any threat come from outside, and everybody, old and new, Republican and Democrat, white-collar worker or blue, will band together. Perhaps that is what our divided world needs now: a threat from outside. Certainly, as one good American said, if we do not hang together we will hang separately. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 15e41d0 | Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself. | empathy pain self-centeredness suffering sympathy | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 00f1c6f | Don't be afraid to be afraid. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fc651c8 | There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Walking on Water | Sarah Arthur | ||
| 1286182 | The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e48baff | The stars do not foretell, because what has not happened must be free to happen, as it will. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a969e8e | I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it--to the fact that I love them. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9e85e7a | There's something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon's knife. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 74055bb | The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is--not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. | Sarah Arthur | ||
| 5a8b5ce | Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f9479c0 | We hear a lot about evangelism today and how the church must pay more attention to evangelism. But mostly evangelism is not what we tell people, unless what we tell is totally consistent with who we are. It is who we are that is going to make the difference. It is who we are that is going to show the love that brought us all into being, that cares for us all, now, and forever. If we do not have love in our hearts, our words of love with hav.. | church evangelism faith | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 3be25ab | One of my young married students has suffered all her life because she was taught in her Church that she was born so sinful that the only way the wrath of God the Father could be appeased enough for him to forgive all her horrible sinfulness was for God the Son to die in agony on the cross. Without his suffering, the Father would remain angry forever with all his Creation. Many of us have had at least part of that horror thrust on us at one.. | Madeleine L'Engle |