He 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.
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. - Elizabeth Goudge
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
- Elizabeth Goudge
There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether y… - Elizabeth Goudge
There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether y…
autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror. - Elizabeth Goudge
autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
He 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 c… - Elizabeth Goudge
He 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 c…
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. - Elizabeth Goudge
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested. - Elizabeth Goudge
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had ask… - Elizabeth Goudge
Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had ask…
[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to… - Elizabeth Goudge
[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to…
...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succ… - Elizabeth Goudge
...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succ…
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