The great thing about getting older is that you dont lose all the other ages youve been. – Madeleine LEngle
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. – Madeleine LEngle
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. – Madeleine LEngle
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks