The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“He strolled to the front door and stood watching, letting the picture of Felicity grave itself so deeply on his mind that when with… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image