The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
Elizabeth GoudgeHe had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.
Elizabeth GoudgeI have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
Elizabeth GoudgeThe whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.
Elizabeth Goudge