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
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
“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way,… — 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
“Meanwhile Canon Leigh in his study did not know what on earth he ought to do; and when he remembered that he… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. — 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
“We're all too apt to think that things are as we feel them to be, forgetting that they have an objective value… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“[He] looked exactly like Michael's idea of Don Quixote, 'the luminary and mirror of all knight-errantry', and for that gentle and melancholy… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Believe instead in love. It is my faith that love shaped the universe as you shape your clocks, delighting in creation. I… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would… — 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
“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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