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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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
— Elizabeth Goudge
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.
— Elizabeth Goudge
He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
— Elizabeth Goudge
All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
— Elizabeth Goudge
All we are asked to bear we can bear.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?
— Elizabeth Goudge
I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ...
— Elizabeth Goudge
Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Marriage is a very long process ...
— Elizabeth Goudge
He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
— Elizabeth Goudge
She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.
— Elizabeth Goudge
The fires of youth are not dead in old age ... only banked down.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Is independence so bad for one?" asked Daphne."Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself. — Elizabeth Goudge
Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
— Elizabeth Goudge
To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
— Elizabeth Goudge
It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
— Elizabeth Goudge
It takes a happy marriage to make light of small things.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Don't waste hate on pink geranium.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Always ailing though never with any specific
— Elizabeth Goudge
Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
And the written words were footsteps, feet running hard to another person.
— Elizabeth Goudge
A close union with the earth seemed to involve one in unison with a good deal more than the earth.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Insufficient nourishment in the early morning leads to pessimism and doubts.
— Elizabeth Goudge
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
— Elizabeth Goudge
What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied. — Elizabeth Goudge
Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Love still owned him, steered him, drew him to itself.
— Elizabeth Goudge
I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.
— Elizabeth Goudge
She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.
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