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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
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A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
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To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
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Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
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the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.
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Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
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God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.
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I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner
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Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
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Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
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You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.
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There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
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As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
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To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.
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If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
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Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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