We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes. -Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle Quotes
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly. -Madeleine L’Engle
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. -Madeline L’Engle
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. -Madeleine L’Engle
Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Madeleine L’Engle
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. -Madeleine L’Engle
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. -Madeleine L’Engle
I do not know everything; still many things I understand. -Madeleine L’Engle
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. -Madeleine L’Engle