Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.