850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don’t have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus?

He’s nothing but a deformed emanation of energy.

Do you know how lucky you are?” She smiled rather wryly. “Not most of the time.

That’s quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we’re not is to inhibit healing.

There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.

The story comes, and it is pure story. That’s all I set out to write. But I don’t believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us.

The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.

Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?” “I give up. Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?” “Professional courtesy.