“ For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst o… Elizabeth Goudge
“ Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into huma… Elizabeth Goudge
“ In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end. 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
“ 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… Elizabeth Goudge
“ These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things. Elizabeth Goudge
“ In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ill… Elizabeth Goudge
“ ... 'Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why h… Elizabeth Goudge
“ You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on s… Elizabeth Goudge
“ A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers. Elizabeth Goudge
“ All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. Elizabeth Goudge
“ There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and… Elizabeth Goudge
“ I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard t… Elizabeth Goudge
“ The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service. Elizabeth Goudge
“ 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
“ For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun sh… Elizabeth Goudge
“ What would normal people think if they knew what went on in a writer's mind below the surface? They'd think him even more around the bend than they had previously supposed if they could see the witche… Elizabeth Goudge
