It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

- Madeleine L'Engle

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to te…

- Madeleine L'Engle

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

- Madeleine L'Engle

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as th…

- Madeleine L'Engle

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

- Madeleine L'Engle

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 …

- Madeleine L'Engle

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

- Madeleine L'Engle

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

- Madeleine L'Engle