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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
– Madeleine LEngle

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  2. A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. – Madeleine LEngle
  3. Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named. – Madeleine LEngle
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  5. In my dreams, I never have an age. – Madeleine LEngle
  6. She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been. – Madeleine LEngle
  7. Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
  8. Art is communication. – Madeleine LEngle
  9. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine LEngle
  10. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. – Madeleine LEngle
  11. Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. – Madeleine LEngle
  12. The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. – Madeleine LEngle
  13. Come t’e’ picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! – Madeleine LEngle
  14. You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father. – Madeleine LEngle
  15. We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. – Madeleine LEngle
  16. Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. – Madeleine LEngle
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  18. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts… – Madeleine LEngle
  19. In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind. – Madeleine LEngle
  20. Believing takes practice. – Madeleine LEngle
  21. Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. – Madeleine LEngle
  22. Prayer was never meant to be magic,’ Mother said.’Then why bother with it?’ Suzy scowled.’Because it’s an act of love,’ Mother said. – Madeleine LEngle
  23. If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves. – Madeleine LEngle
  24. There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. – Madeleine LEngle
  25. 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 LEngle
  26. Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories. – Madeleine LEngle
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  28. Women in Jesus’ day were less than second-class citizens. – Madeleine LEngle
  29. You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. – Madeleine LEngle
  30. Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist. – Madeleine LEngle
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  32. Meg’s eyes were too bright. -œI wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. – Madeleine LEngle
  33. Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated. – Madeleine LEngle
  34. It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. – Madeleine LEngle
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  36. There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. – Madeleine LEngle
  37. I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person. – Madeleine LEngle
  38. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine LEngle
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  40. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. – Madeleine LEngle

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