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There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Tin, World
Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.219, Macmillan

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hopeless, Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.40, Macmillan

When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

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

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

Madeleine L'Engle
Song, Stars, Waiting
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.289, Macmillan

Believing takes practice.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Practice
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.217, Macmillan

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Madeleine L'Engle
Distance, Science, Two
Twitter post from May 16, 2016

I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.

Madeleine L'Engle
Lying, Thinking, Sweaters

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

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

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

Madeleine L'Engle
Religious, Flower, Rocks
Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.24, WaterBrook

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

Madeleine L'Engle
Views, Point Of View

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Madeleine L'Engle
Writing, Form, Given
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Apr 23, 2016

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

Madeleine L'Engle
Intimate, Share, Poetry Is

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

Madeleine L'Engle
People, Trustworthy, Trusted

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Madeleine L'Engle
Blessing, Rainbow, Holiness

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Order, Fascination
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.78, Open Road Media

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

Madeleine L'Engle
Letting Go, Plato, Mean
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

People are more than just the way they look.

Madeleine L'Engle
People, Looks, Way
Twitter post from Mar 21, 2017

It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . . The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.

Madeleine L'Engle
Beautiful, Laughter, Reality
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.124, Open Road Media

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hurt, Joy, Feelings
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

Madeleine L'Engle
Journey, Light, Each Day
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.103, Open Road Media

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dream, Flying, Able

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

Madeleine L'Engle
Risk, Relation, Wedding Ceremony
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

Madeleine L'Engle
Wedding, Hurt, Long
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

Madeleine L'Engle
Pain, Writing, Joy
"The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

Madeleine L'Engle
Fire, Wrath, Rocks
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015

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