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Quotes from The Scent of Water — Elizabeth Goudge

1900–1984 England

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

The Scent of Water (1963)

Growth is just awareness of more and more.

The Scent of Water (1963)

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.