Elizabeth Goudge Quotes - Page 2

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• Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  People, Humanity, Comfort

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.8, Penguin

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• Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Light, Imagination, Vision

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Flower, Butterfly, Bird

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• ...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 He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Selfish, Lying, Community

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• 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 never upon our own cheek.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pride, Compassion, Self

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK

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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

  Believe, Events, Hated

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Autumn, Saint

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Hair, Use, World

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• to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mother, Perfect, Grandparent

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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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 very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Men, Effort

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

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Passion, Heart

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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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 steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Self, Firsts, Opinion

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pain, Heart, Fire

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• I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Men, Three, Beast

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• In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Character, Weather, Attention

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.47, Penguin

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• Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Ignorance, Men, Long

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Butterfly, Garden, Simple

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• "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 case we're sucked in and have to share it".

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

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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 working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Law, Bears

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• She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Fear, Done, Faces

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mother, Children, Father

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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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.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  People, Sentimental, Genuine

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• 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

  Clever, Blood, Brave

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