Elizabeth Goudge Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• "Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

• He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Heart, Pride, Self

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

• There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Christian, Pain, Believe

  Elizabeth Goudge (1942). “The Castle on the Hill”

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