Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge

“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”.

Suffering

Thinking

Want

Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

Community

Lying

Selfish

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Cry

Empathy

Heart

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

Distance

Firsts

Perspective

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Bears

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

Autumn

Saint

Spring

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

Drinking

Integrity

Roots

Cleanliness’, chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece’s delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, ‘comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

Eye

Niece

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

Life And Death

Light

Night

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

Demand

Giving

Hospitality

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Art

Autumn

Bears

Childhood

Children

Community

Compassion

Country

Cry

Demand

Detachment

Distance

Drinking

Effort

Empathy

Evil

Eye

Fire

Firsts

Flower

Giving

God

Grandparent

Hair

Hands

Hate

Hearing

Heart

Home

Hospitality

Integrity

Knows

Life

Life And Death

Light

Lying

Men

Mistake

Moon

Mother

Nature

Niece

Night

Pain

Paper

People

Perfect

Perspective

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Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge

“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”.

Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

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

Cleanliness’, chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece’s delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, ‘comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

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