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[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 be experienced and loved not hated.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
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I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.
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The 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.
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I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.
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She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.
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The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
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This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.
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autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
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to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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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.
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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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I 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.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.
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Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
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What is the scent of water? Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
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