850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it’s far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words.

A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can’t name a major publisher who didn’t reject it.

If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn’t mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one’s own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

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

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

We do not know what things look like, as you say,” the beast said. “We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.