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
“Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life. — 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… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the… — 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… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“If in this life only we have hope…" By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced… — 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,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“I think it will last," said Grandfather. "In my experience when people once begin to read they go on. They begin because… — 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,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Nothing whatsoever, not even the existence of God to His lovers, can be proved, but that every man, if he is to… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“...He had seen that look in so many eyes lately, not the fear of death but the fear of life. Is it… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In the utter peace and stillness the world seemed holding its breath, a little apprehensively, drawing near to the fire to warm… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“John Adair had little liking for the simple life; he said it was not simple, but the most damnably complicated method of… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“If you think this life is all there is," he said, "then self-sacrifice must seem to you sheer insanity. If you do… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that… — 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
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