Quotes

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

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Nephilim lieth in the true God alone.

Madeleine L'Engle

There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.

Madeleine L'Engle

I give you your faults.

Madeleine L'Engle

You are able to love each other because you are perfectly free.

Madeleine L'Engle

But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love is making something else more important than yourself.

Madeleine L'Engle