75 quotes
In kairos that part of us which is not consumed in the burning is wholly awake.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Nothing important is completely explicable.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
"Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do."
A Wind in the Door (1973)
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
A Ring of Endless Light (1980)
The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.
Penguins and Golden Calves (2003)
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
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.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
A Stone for a Pillow (1986)
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
"Why do you write for children?" My immediate response to this question is, "I don't."
A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Most of the time nowadays we human beings are referred to as consumers.
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)