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• [I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Believe, Events, Hated

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Autumn, Saint

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

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• Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Strong, Real, Evil

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mother, Perfect, Grandparent

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

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• If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Men, Effort

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• 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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• [Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Self, Firsts, Opinion

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pain, Heart, Fire

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• There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Exception, Delightful

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.22, Penguin

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• Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Light, Imagination, Vision

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

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• There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Men, Three, Beast

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• In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Character, Weather, Attention

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.47, Penguin

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• A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Dog, Ease, Terror

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Ignorance, Men, Long

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• "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

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• Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Flower, Moon

  Elizabeth Goudge (1949). “Gentian Hill”

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• All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Law, Bears

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• The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.

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  Winter, Fire, Light

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• She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Fear, Done, Faces

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

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  Sorry, Richness Of Life, Together

  Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.484, Hachette UK

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• 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”

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• Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  People, Sentimental, Genuine

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Sun

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.67, Penguin

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• I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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

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• I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Knows, Known

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.156, Penguin

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