One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: prayer
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: inspirational universe
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
Madeleine L'EngleYou don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.
Madeleine L'EngleBut she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.
Madeleine L'EngleIn other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
Madeleine L'EngleIn the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: introversion
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
Madeleine L'EngleThou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
Madeleine L'EngleWild nights are my glory!
Madeleine L'EngleTag: storms mrs-whatsit
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