Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) — Schriftstellerin · Episkopal (anglikanisch) · USA
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und langjährige Writer-in-Residence an der episkopalen Kathedrale Saint John the Divine in New York City. Bekannt durch ihren Jugendbuchklassiker „A Wrinkle in Time“ sowie theologische Essays, verband sie den christlichen Glauben eng mit Naturwissenschaft, Kunst und der Bedeutung des Zweifelns. Für Bibelleser bietet ihr Werk Impulse zur Verbindung von Intellekt und geistlichem Leben, stieß jedoch in konservativ-evangelikalen Kreisen wegen universalistischer Tendenzen auf theologische Kritik.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Freedom & Truth, Doubt & Hard Questions, Love, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
Madeleine L'Engle
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L'Engle
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
It is through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
Madeleine L'Engle
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
Madeleine L'Engle
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
It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
Madeleine L'Engle
Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us.
Madeleine L'Engle
I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.
Madeleine L'Engle
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.
Madeleine L'Engle
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Madeleine L'Engle
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
Madeleine L'Engle
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
Madeleine L'Engle
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
Madeleine L'Engle
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
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
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn.
Madeleine L'Engle
How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day?
Madeleine L'Engle
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
Madeleine L'Engle
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
Madeleine L'Engle
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
Madeleine L'Engle
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
Madeleine L'Engle
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing important is completely explicable.
Madeleine L'Engle
And joy is always a promise.
Madeleine L'Engle
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
Madeleine L'Engle
But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
Madeleine L'Engle
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