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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)

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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.

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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.

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