“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
“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Yet surely that story she had imagined was a real thing? If you created a story with your mind surely it was… — 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
“A bookseller," said Grandfather, "is the link between mind and mind, the feeder of the hungry, very often the binder up of… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it… — 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
“Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.” — 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