Heart Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

9 Heart quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

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Goudge’s pastoral voice paints the heart as a garden of hope, and this modest set invites readers to linger in her quiet, uplifting reflections.

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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

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“She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it…

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The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep,…

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He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way,…

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“Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only…

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The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth.…

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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to…

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“Cousin Mary hoped her journey through periods of dark and light was like that of a Swiss train toiling up the mountainside,…

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Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

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Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently,…

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“These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God…

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“What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.”

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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and…

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A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

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[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not…

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Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to…

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“Nothing whatsoever, not even the existence of God to His lovers, can be proved, but that every man, if he is to live at…

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