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Madeleine L'Engle

15 quotes · Walking on Water, A Circle of Quiet, A Wrinkle in Time

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water · this quote
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet · this quote
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: you're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
Believing takes practice.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
Like and equal are not the same thing at all.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
People are more than just the way they look.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
Only a fool is not afraid.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time · this quote

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