Elizabeth Goudge Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Childhood, Knows

• 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 shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Dark, Sea

• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

• Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mother, Children, Father

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

• The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Passion, Heart

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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