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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.
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I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
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If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
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One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.
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To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
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There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life
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The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
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I do not know everything still many things I understand.
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Don't be afraid... We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing.
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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
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As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
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Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
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As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
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A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.
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To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
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The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
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Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
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