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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “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.”

101. “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.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “Illness was admirable training in the creative art of grateful acceptance. Pain accepted was just pain, and heavy, but Harriet believed that pain gladly accepted took wings, went somewhere and did something.”

102. “Illness was admirable training in the creative art of grateful acceptance. Pain accepted was just pain, and heavy, but Harriet believed that pain gladly accepted took wings, went somewhere and did something.”

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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.”

103. “But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.”

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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm’s length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you’ve pushed them away and you’re the poorer.”

104. “Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm’s length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you’ve pushed them away and you’re the poorer.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “Firelight and Polly had lent a momentary charm to the parlor but now, looking up at the portrait, he was aware of having passed under the shadow of a dark hand. Emma, he realized, lived under it always. Her parlor was her past, and Isaac’s, and if Issac in tearing himself out of its grip had torn himself too he was better off with his asthma and his nerves and his eccentricity than Emma. Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.”

105. “Firelight and Polly had lent a momentary charm to the parlor but now, looking up at the portrait, he was aware of having passed under the shadow of a dark hand. Emma, he realized, lived under it always. Her parlor was her past, and Isaac’s, and if Issac in tearing himself out of its grip had torn himself too he was better off with his asthma and his nerves and his eccentricity than Emma. Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.”

106. “She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.”

107. “In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.”

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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “There were lights in the nave but they could do no more than splash pools of gold here and there, they could not illumine the shadows above or the dim unlighted chantries and half-seen tombs. The great pillars soared into darkness and the aisles narrowed to twilight. Candles twinkled in the choir and the high altar with its flowers was ablaze with them, but all the myriad flames were no more than seed pearls embroidered on a dark cloak.”

108. “There were lights in the nave but they could do no more than splash pools of gold here and there, they could not illumine the shadows above or the dim unlighted chantries and half-seen tombs. The great pillars soared into darkness and the aisles narrowed to twilight. Candles twinkled in the choir and the high altar with its flowers was ablaze with them, but all the myriad flames were no more than seed pearls embroidered on a dark cloak.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “The small children and the very old, with the stuff of life hardly yet grasped or perforce nearly relinquished, were protected and secure and could enjoy their dreams and illusions immune from the daily wear and tear. And how lucky they were!”

109. “The small children and the very old, with the stuff of life hardly yet grasped or perforce nearly relinquished, were protected and secure and could enjoy their dreams and illusions immune from the daily wear and tear. And how lucky they were!”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “She did not suppose for a moment that anything worth having, and she now knew faith to be supremely worth having, was ever easy to have.”

110. “She did not suppose for a moment that anything worth having, and she now knew faith to be supremely worth having, was ever easy to have.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “They did not know how vivid are the memories of the old and that only the young are housebound when they can’t go out.”

111. “They did not know how vivid are the memories of the old and that only the young are housebound when they can’t go out.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.”

112. “If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “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.”

113. “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.”

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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “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.”

114. “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.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “Since she had had to lead this shut-in invalid life she had found illness involved suffering almost as much from the tyranny of painful thoughts as from physical pain.”

115. “Since she had had to lead this shut-in invalid life she had found illness involved suffering almost as much from the tyranny of painful thoughts as from physical pain.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.”

116. “His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.”

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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “Never hide from adverse criticism. Mockery, indifference, misunderstanding – welcome the lot. Criticism of your work is much the same as criticism of yourself, you know, your work being an extension of yourself, and there’s nothing like good slashing personal criticism for begetting humility.”

117. “Never hide from adverse criticism. Mockery, indifference, misunderstanding – welcome the lot. Criticism of your work is much the same as criticism of yourself, you know, your work being an extension of yourself, and there’s nothing like good slashing personal criticism for begetting humility.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.”

118. “The fires of youth are not dead in old age... only banked down.”

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Elizabeth Goudge Quote: “He did not consciously tell himself that it was his eternity but he had a confused idea that the dark would not entirely get him while the pulse beat on in this clock.”

119. “He did not consciously tell himself that it was his eternity but he had a confused idea that the dark would not entirely get him while the pulse beat on in this clock.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

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