Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you.
In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.
Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?
Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
Is independence so bad for one?" asked Daphne.
"Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself.
"Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself.
The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
Now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.
Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.
Those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.
His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.
I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.
Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.