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Elizabeth Goudge

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The Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge

Green Dolphin Street

Elizabeth Goudge

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Famous Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

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

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

“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 book Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“What is the scent of water?"
"Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.”

Elizabeth Goudge

Source: The Scent of Water

“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

Source: The White Witch

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

“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

Source: Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge Quotes about life

“[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 book Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 14.2

“Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2

Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

“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

“There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

“In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.”

Elizabeth Goudge

Source: The Rosemary Tree

“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

Source: The Scent of Water

“He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.”

Elizabeth Goudge

“The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Child from the Sea (1970), Book 2, Chapter 1.5

“For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2

“There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 10.1

“A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 9.2

“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The White Witch (1958), Part 1, Chapter 12.2

“We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations.”

Elizabeth Goudge

The Bird in the Tree (1940), Chapter 6.3

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