Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Life, Love

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Like

• Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself

• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Angel

• A book comes and says, “Write me.” My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Listen, Writing

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuition, Christianity, Acceptance

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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