Best Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
- [I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in… Believe
- He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely… Choice
- All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. All
- ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means… Accomplishment
- The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will… Clouds
- We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are… All
- Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in… All
- Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her… Astonished
- Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her.… Able
- What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew. Coming
- 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 very lightweight in… Appeared
- There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule. Always Something
- He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. Came
- 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 I… All
- In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. Among
- If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's… Dead