Religion Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

8 Religion quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge’s short reflections on faith are lyrical and tender, each line a soft whisper. Eight brief quotes capture her gentle, literary sensibility.

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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…

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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the…

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I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin'…

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“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about…

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Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith…

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If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem…

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“In moments of exaltation one expressed sentiments that outstripped one's spiritual capabilities by a vast span; and she knew well that unless…

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

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

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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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