Madeleine L'Engle has an incredible way with words. I love the way that she captures the imagination and challenges the mind through story. In this book, she helps the reader understand the gift of story-telling. She does this both through teaching and beautiful story-telling of her own.

Most people think of truth as something that can be proven with verifiable facts and figures. The gift of story-telling grants access to deep truths that are far more important than facts.

As a Christian minister who is deeply immersed in the bible on a daily basis, the way that Madeleine reflects and expounds on the Christian Scriptures is inspiring. In her stories, she uncovers valuable gems that are sometimes difficult to see at first glance. I have picked up many helpful tools in these pages that are bound to benefit me for years to come.

The Rock that is Higher is a beautiful book that folk from all walks of life are bound to enjoy and benefit from.

An excellent (and serendipitous) companion read with Lewis’s That Hideous Strength. Though neither book completely aligns with how I understand God’s creation, both explored mythos in a way that revealed Jehovah as a creative Creator, who puts more stock in Truth than mere fact.

This is one of those books you have to be in the right mindset to tackle. Pensive and thoughtful, L'Engle explores her life, writing and faith. I'm definitely going to have to come back to this book again in the future.

L'Engle is a delightful treat to me...though only somewhat frivolously enjoyed. Her mind carries her readers this way and that through highs and lows of pithy thought, deep wisdom, and comical connections. In that way she can be difficult to read, yet if you allow your eyes, as it were, to blur a tad you can see a wide masterpiece like an optical illusion coming to life. I believe Madeleine L'Engle is a bit of a genius, but that of course causes many of her thoughts to appear outrageous and somewhat insane, and even heretical. Who was it who once said that it is the crazy people who really understand this world, and the "normal" people who are insane... or something to that affect.
Anyway, this book is full of wisdom, but also full of nonsense, and in with particularly easy method of thought to follow. How do you contain the mind and heart of a woman like Madeleine L'Engle? I have many underlined phrases, and some curious new perspectives on things, but overall, I could not *summarize* what this book is really about, and may possibly be harboring some new heretical ideas about the Christian faith. I may be better for it, maybe not, but I worked my mind and imagination about the wonders of God and this world, and that made the reading worth it.