Madeleine L'Engle Is Quotations

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

...to share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible...

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

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.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Art is communication.

Love is the one surprise.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.