Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle, a great author, thinker, and poet among other things passed away last month. She wrote many great books, the most famous being A Wrinkle in Time. I have read many of her memoirs, and each time, reading them made me want to sit down and spend some time with her. She was smart, wise, compassionate and funny. I hope that people continue to discover and be inspired by her books. I found "Madeleine L’Engle on God, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and aging well", one of her last interviews, to be quite entertaining.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from her works:

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.