850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy – not qualified, mind you; just holy.

An old ass knows more than a young colt.

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

I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.

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.

Truth is what is true, and it’s not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – Mrs. Whatsit.

If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.