Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, " Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.