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wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

Madeleine L'Engle
Laughter, Heaven
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.69, Macmillan

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Heart, Pascal
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.28, Macmillan

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiring, Art, Thoughtful

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

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

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Flower, Jumping
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.60, Macmillan

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspirational, Science, Light

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Madeleine L'Engle
Death, Journey, Born

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

Madeleine L'Engle
Writing, Mean, Up To You
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.87, Macmillan

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Madeleine L'Engle
Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Madeleine L'Engle
Forgiveness, Loving Life, Evening
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.183, Open Road Media

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Madeleine L'Engle
Facts, Another Life, Expenses
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.80, Macmillan

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Age, Mood
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.119, Open Road Media

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Book, Writing
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.123, Open Road Media

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

Madeleine L'Engle
Loss, Past, Understanding
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.75, Convergent Books

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Madeleine L'Engle
Prayer, Heart, Needs
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.61, Open Road Media

What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Thinking, Giving
"A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

Madeleine L'Engle
Prison, Christ, Legalism

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Boys, Men
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.67, Open Road Media

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Madeleine L'Engle
Attitude, Mean, Understanding
Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

Madeleine L'Engle
Courage, Stories, Alive

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Madeleine L'Engle
Life, How You Feel, Feels
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.192, Macmillan

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Madeleine L'Engle
Artist, Way, Interfere
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.22, Convergent Books

In reading we must become creators.

Madeleine L'Engle
Reading, Creator
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.31, Convergent Books

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Madeleine L'Engle
Two, Different, Language
Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.64, Obelix Books

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Madeleine L'Engle
Wanted, Knows
"Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1996.

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