Quotes of Madeleine L’Engle - somelinesforyou

“ Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,’ a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ Love does not judge. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ In order to allow ourselves to be creative, we have to relinquish control and overcome fear. Why? Because real creativity is life-altering. It threatens the status quo; it makes us see things differently. It brings about change, and we are terrified of change… we live in a wild universe — a universe in which the truth is frightening… ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I 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

“ With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, This is what I believe. Finished. What I believe is alive… and open to groth. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I 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

“ We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I 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

“ With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I 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

“ I 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I 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

“ A life lived in chaos is an impossibility… ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in this world. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle
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