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Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

1900–1984 England

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books.

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Random Elizabeth Goudge quote

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

The Dean's Watch (1960)

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

The White Witch (1958)

There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.

The Dean's Watch (1960)

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

The Scent of Water (1963)

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.

The Child from the Sea (1970)

Civilization is another word for respect for life.

Though the experience of perfection is feather-light it brands like fire.

Green Dolphin Country (1944)

Growth is just awareness of more and more.

The Scent of Water (1963)

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

The Bird in the Tree (1940)

The saints are simple people. It is the condition of divided allegiance, doubt and compromise and the twists and turns of self-deception, that is complicated, not holiness.

Saint Francis of Assisi (1959)

In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another.

Gentian Hill (1950)

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.

The Scent of Water (1963)

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.

The Scent of Water (1963)

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.

The Scent of Water (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Goudge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.