The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
Madeleine L'EngleIt is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
Madeleine L'EngleWe think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
Madeleine L'EngleYou cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
Madeleine L'EngleI am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?
Madeleine L'Engle