850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.

I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, ’but I’ve discovered that I can’t live as though I didn’t believe in him. As long as I don’t need to say any more than that I try to live as though I believe in God, I would very much like to come to church – if you’ll let me.

We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear.

Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ’religious.

You matter. You are. Be.

So the challenge I face with children is the redemption of adulthood. We must make it evident that maturity is the fulfillment of childhood and adolescence, not a diminishing; that it is an affirmation of life, not a denial; that it is entering fully into our essential selves.

Okay, Polly,” her grandfather said. “Let’s have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?

A book, too, can be a star ’explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.