Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Is it that bad, Mrs. Bowen?" Clement asked.Emily shook her head. "Gertrude's been hurt and so she's generalizing. It's a pretty good country on the whole, and the people in it, too. We have our faults and they may be glaring, and we have individuals we may not be proud of, but take us by and large we'll stick our necks our for something we believe in, and that in itself may be a fault, but it's one I like.""Bravo," Abe said.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

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

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.