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I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

Madeleine L'Engle
Air, Oxygen, Breathing

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Madeleine L'Engle
Letting Go, Discovery, Reason
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.137, Macmillan

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Madeleine L'Engle
Protect

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

Madeleine L'Engle
Real, Parent, Way
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.63, Open Road Media

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

Madeleine L'Engle
Long, Joy, Sorrow
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.92, Macmillan

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Education, Teaching, Asking
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.113, Convergent Books

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hurt, Children, Growing Up
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.65, Convergent Books

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Madeleine L'Engle
Real, Taught, Eternity
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.96, Open Road Media

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

Madeleine L'Engle
Family, Dozen, Way

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Madeleine L'Engle
Frustration, Return, Sense Of Humor
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.5, Open Road Media

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

Madeleine L'Engle
Spring, Past, Rocks

We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.

Madeleine L'Engle
Wind, Land, Rivers
Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Giving, People
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.26, Macmillan

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Culture, Great Art

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Self, Holiness

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

Madeleine L'Engle
Artist, Want, Helping

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

Madeleine L'Engle
Love Is, Golden, Accepting

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Madeleine L'Engle
Husband, Father, Lovers
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.49, Open Road Media

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Madeleine L'Engle
Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.90, Macmillan

poets are born knowing the language of angels

Madeleine L'Engle
Angel, Knowing, Language
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.171, Macmillan

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

Madeleine L'Engle
Pet, Way, Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.21, Macmillan

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Wrinkles, Names, Wrinkle In Time
"Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1996.

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

Madeleine L'Engle
Husband, Children, Writing
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Madeleine L'Engle
Novelists, Might, Helping

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Hard Work, Paris
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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