Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.
Madeleine L'EngleI simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.
Madeleine L'EngleYou see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
Madeleine L'EngleWhen I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: peace quiet listen self-care being be
A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old, a born writer who came to Harlem from Panama five years ago, and only then discovered the conflict between races, asked me, "Mrs. Franklin, do you really and truly believe in God with no doubts at all?"
"Oh, Una, I really and truly believe in God with all kinds of doubts."
But I base my life on this belief.
In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...
Madeleine L'EngleTag: art pain faith grace hope memory creation artist memories creator grace-and-favor
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: writing
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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: art consumerism creation artist creating create consumer
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.
Madeleine L'EngleThey've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: humor history rain change environment mankind horse earth snow traffic poignant river pure brook next-generation a-wind-in-the-door
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