850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can’t pick and choose who’s going to be the sparrow. It’s everybody.

But my memories are like a fire in winter – whenever I’m cold I can warm my hands at them. – Ditta.

Love, she insisted, is not power, which she considered always coercive. To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk – not safety and security – that we overcome darkness.

Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Now wonder our youth is confused and in pain; they long for God, for the transcendent, and they are offered, far too often, either piosity or sociology, neither of which meets their needs, and they are introduced to churches which have become buildings that are a safe place to go to escape the awful demands of God.

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

Refusing to accept God’s love because we’re unworthy – of course we’re unworthy! – is another golden calf.