Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.
Madeleine L'EngleThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
Madeleine L'EngleTo grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
Madeleine L'EngleOnly Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
Madeleine L'EngleAs I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
Madeleine L'Engle