Elizabeth Goudge

“He strolled to the front door and stood watching, letting the picture of Felicity grave itself so deeply on his mind that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Marriage is a very long process.

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou…

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“There was always a little difficulty as to who should decorate what, all the ladies having the lowest opinion of each other's…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Give me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

“The Eliots found it a queer sort of evening - a transition evening. Hitherto the Herb of Grace had been to them…

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Elizabeth Goudge