Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuition, Christianity, Acceptance

• With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Life

• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Art, Work

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Love

• We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.

  Madeleine L'Engle

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  Madeleine L'Engle

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Work

• In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Life, Love

• The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Topics in Age

Madeleine L'Engle (29)

Birth:	29th December, 1918
Death:	6th September, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.

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