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How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most

How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Compassion, People
Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.33, Open Road Media

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

Madeleine L'Engle
Religious, Women, Godly
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.53, Convergent Books

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

Madeleine L'Engle
Stars, Rain, Moon
Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

Madeleine L'Engle
Life, Spring, Sunshine
Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

Madeleine L'Engle
God, Science, Possibility

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

Madeleine L'Engle
Elation, Wonderful, Forget
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “And Both Were Young”, p.27, Macmillan

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Journey, Shadow

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Madeleine L'Engle
Aunt, Looks, Beast
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.98, Macmillan

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

Madeleine L'Engle
Risk, Failing, Ifs

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

Madeleine L'Engle
Block, Struggle, Mind
Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob”, p.107, Convergent Books

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Anger
Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “Certain Women: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Discovery
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.144, Macmillan

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Madeleine L'Engle
Memories, Winter, Fire

Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

Madeleine L'Engle
Stars, Names, Ideas
Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wind in the Door”, p.206, Macmillan

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Madeleine L'Engle
Laughter, Laughing, Giving
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

Madeleine L'Engle
Unseen Things, Scripture, Bible Verse

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Madeleine L'Engle
Giving, Understanding, Needs

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

Madeleine L'Engle
Artist, Needs, Mets

And joy is always a promise.

Madeleine L'Engle
Joy, Promise
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.77, Open Road Media

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Madeleine L'Engle
Stories, Truth Is, Humans

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mother, Family Love, Long
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.94, Open Road Media

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

Madeleine L'Engle
Answers, Infinite, Finite
Twitter post from Feb 21, 2011

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity, Self, Firsts
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.9, Open Road Media

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.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspirational, Motivational, Men
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Young Unicorns”, p.202, Macmillan

When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

Madeleine L'Engle
Baby, Body, Celebrate

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