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Elizabeth Goudge
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“We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bird in the Tree (1940), Chapter 6.3
“In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gentian Hill (1950), Book 3, Chapter 3.1
“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The White Witch (1958), Part 1, Chapter 12.2
“A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 9.2
“There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 10.1
“For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2
“Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2
“There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 14.2
“The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.”
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Child from the Sea (1970), Book 2, Chapter 1.5