Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me.

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

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Art is communication.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

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.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.