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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
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I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
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But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.
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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
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To be born is to start the journey towards death.
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And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
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there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
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Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
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An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
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If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
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Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
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When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
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Wild nights are my glory!
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No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
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Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, Charles Wallace said. Why should I disillusion them?
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Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.
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Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.
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Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
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But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
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The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
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I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things the word about being.
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'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
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science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.
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