There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
– Madeleine LEngle
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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. – Madeleine LEngle
- What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. – Madeleine LEngle
- Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world. – William E Jefferson
- You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. – Madeleine LEngle
- Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- Nothing loved is ever lost or perished. – Madeleine LEngle
- The line between sacred and secular is man-made. – Sarah Bessey
- A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. – Madeleine LEngle
- A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. – Madeleine LEngle
- People are more than just the way they look. – Madeleine LEngle
- In my dreams, I never have an age. – Madeleine LEngle
- She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been. – Madeleine LEngle
- Art is communication. – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. – Madeleine LEngle
- The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. – Madeleine LEngle
- Come t’e’ picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! – Madeleine LEngle
- You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father. – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. – Madeleine LEngle
- The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- 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
- Believing takes practice. – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories. – Madeleine LEngle
- Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories. – Madeleine LEngle
- Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist. – Madeleine LEngle
- We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. – Madeleine LEngle
- Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast – Madeleine LEngle
- Meg’s eyes were too bright. -œI wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. – Madeleine LEngle
- Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated. – Madeleine LEngle
- we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which – Madeleine LEngle
- A book, too, can be a star ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. – Madeleine LEngle
- 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
- The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine LEngle
- I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. – Madeleine LEngle