850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.