15 beautiful quotes by Madeleine L'Engle. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Madeleine L'Engle
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you writ...
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it so...
“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.”
“In my dreams, I never have an age.”
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“People are more than just the way they look.”
“It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before bre...
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do h...
“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what m...
“The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”
“Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically dive...
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
