194 Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

There are some people who don’t realize what it is they are doing to others until they are paid back in their own coin. But those are not the worst. The worst are those whose unkindness is calculated.

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.

The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.

She had the courage that accepts instantly, without recoil, and the reverence in love that towards man is without possessiveness and towards God without rebellion.

Her pain came from inside herself, from her resentment of the contrariness and frustration of life, while his came most often from outside himself, growing inevitably from his compassion. It was a simplification of the difference between them to say that to the selfish comfort comes from the external things, while to the selfless consolation comes interiorly, but that was the way Daphne put it to herself.

There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes to put them in, and while they struggled there was hope.

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one’s mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.

And the written words were footsteps, feet running hard to another person.

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.