Madeleine L Engle Quotes

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle

“I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv'n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world
And all her train were hurl'd.”
― Henry Vaughan

“To grow up
is to find
the small part you are playing
in the extraordinary drama
written by
somebody else.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle

“A book, too, can be a star, "explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly," a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle