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In my dreams, I never have an age.

In my dreams, I never have an age.
– Madeleine LEngle

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  1. 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
  2. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. – Madeleine LEngle
  3. A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. – Madeleine LEngle
  4. 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
  5. People are more than just the way they look. – 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. 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
  9. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. – Madeleine LEngle
  10. In reading we must become creators. – 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. Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. – Madeleine LEngle
  14. 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
  15. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. – Madeleine LEngle
  16. Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. – Madeleine LEngle
  17. The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. – Madeleine LEngle
  18. … scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body. – Madeleine LEngle
  19. 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
  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. 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
  23. There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. – Madeleine LEngle
  24. Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free. – Madeleine LEngle
  25. Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories. – Madeleine LEngle
  26. Women in Jesus’ day were less than second-class citizens. – Madeleine LEngle
  27. A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. – Madeleine LEngle
  28. You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. – Madeleine LEngle
  29. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. – Madeleine LEngle
  30. Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist. – Madeleine LEngle
  31. 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
  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
  35. A book, too, can be a star ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. – Madeleine LEngle
  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
  39. Nothing loved is ever lost or perished. – Madeleine LEngle
  40. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. – Madeleine LEngle

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