194 Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.

I don’t fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I’m too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.

She had no beauty to commend her apart from the sweetness of her smile and the kindliness of her round brown eyes, but she carried with her wherever she went that aura of almost heavenly motherliness which so often shines about a woman who has borne only one child, and in losing it has become mother to all the world, shining more wonderfully than about the mother of a dozen.

Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.

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

The tragic capacity of the human race for going off course was a little balanced by the integrity of the animals who were always obedient to the law of their being. We were meant to love like that, thought Mary, simply because that’s our law and we were told to obey it.

They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.

A Princess called to rule a kingdom must know it through and through, if she is to reign worthily. And how can she know it, if she is not given the freedom of it?

I think God creates what one might call spiritual families, people who may or may not be physically related to each other, but who will travel together the whole of the way. And it’s a long way.