850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

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.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.