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A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

Madeleine L'Engle
Moving, Passion, Long
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.51, Open Road Media

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mean, Way, Walking On Water
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.29, Convergent Books

Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

Madeleine L'Engle
Heart, Hair, Feelings
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Stars, Moving
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 02, 2016

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

Madeleine L'Engle
Love Is, Growth, Valleys
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.64, Open Road Media

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Names, Giving
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Blind
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.50, Open Road Media

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
Men, Play, People

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

Madeleine L'Engle
Morning, People, Bird

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Madeleine L'Engle
Doe, Stories, Littles

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Madeleine L'Engle
Lost
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.172, Macmillan

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

Madeleine L'Engle
Love Is, Light, Giving
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.66, Open Road Media

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Silence, Sides, Communion
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.107, Convergent Books

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Knowledge, Understanding, Way
Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

Madeleine L'Engle
Teacher, Children, Oxygen
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.30, Open Road Media

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

Madeleine L'Engle
Language, Mankind, Humans
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.13, Open Road Media

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Life, Attitude, Integrity
Twitter post from Aug 29, 2016

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Laughter, Never Forget, Forget
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.110, Convergent Books

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Madeleine L'Engle
I've Learned, Children Book, Childrens Book
Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.9, Obelix Books

I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hate, War, Angel

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Madeleine L'Engle
Men, Plus, Knows
Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.61, Macmillan

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Madeleine L'Engle
Time, White Collar, Timing And Life
Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.96, Macmillan

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspirational, Uplifting, Work
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.90, Open Road Media

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

Madeleine L'Engle
Facts, Mystic, Persons

I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Evil, Heaven

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