Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
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.
Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you.
In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.
It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.
He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.
Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.
The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.
She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.
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.
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
