Elizabeth Goudge: Quotes about life

Elizabeth Goudge was English fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Elizabeth Goudge: 40 quotes0 likes

“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

“[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