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Elizabeth Goudge quotes

English Writer April 24, 1900 – April 1, 1984

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[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 it to be experienced and loved; not hated. Elizabeth Goudge
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. Elizabeth Goudge
But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend. Elizabeth Goudge
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 a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart. Elizabeth Goudge
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable. Elizabeth Goudge
...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death. Elizabeth Goudge
One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them. Elizabeth Goudge
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life... Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge quote: "Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working..."
Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for. Elizabeth Goudge
The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end. Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge quote: "I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry..."
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 shan't know him. Elizabeth Goudge
Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass. Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge quote: "Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing."
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge quote: "Don't waste hate on pink geranium."
Don't waste hate on pink geranium. Elizabeth Goudge
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 that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her. Elizabeth Goudge

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