194 Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

Genius creates from the heart and when men put love into their work there is power in it, there is a soul in the body.

Love, and nothing else, was eternal. “Love is the Lord by whom we escape death.

Bringing up children, she thought, was like pouring ginger beer into a tumbler. All went well up to a certain point, and then it all frothed over the top.

His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

She had taken to herself her mother’s fair beauty and as much – and no more – of her father’s intelligence as it was desirable that a pretty child should have, and to them some good fairy had added something else, the best of all gifts, the power of enjoyment, not just animal enjoyment of good health and good spirits but that authentic love of life that sees good days.

She had known then that there were things one was more afraid of being without with ease than possessing with pain.

The elements were “seeking” each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Is a man less of a man, because he’s learned to hold his tongue?

Don’t waste hate on pink geranium.