Madeleine L'Engle - Truth Quotes

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Because you're not what I would have you be
I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Madeleine L'Engle
Henneberger: If the Bible is not literally true, does that mean we don't need to take it seriously?
L'Engle: Oh no, you do, because it's truth, not fact, and you have to take truth seriously even when it expands beyond the facts.

Madeleine L'Engle
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Madeleine L'Engle
What can we give a child when there is nothing left?
All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.

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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

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

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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is.
It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

Madeleine L'Engle
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation... works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter... The offerings of creation... our glimpses of truth.

Madeleine L'Engle
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Madeleine L'Engle