Madeleine LEngle Quotes about Giving

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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.

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

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

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

Madeleine L'Engle

Art, Mean, Giving

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.16, Convergent Books

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

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

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.

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

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Madeleine L'Engle

Pain, Giving, Littles

Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.62, Macmillan

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Giving, Dies, Ifs

Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.111, Macmillan

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Madeleine L'Engle

Fate, Giving, Sock

Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.89, Macmillan

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Madeleine L'Engle

Thinking, Always Trying, Giving

Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan