What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming... by Elizabeth Goudge

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Marriage is a very long process. by Elizabeth Goudge

Marriage is a very long process.

Elizabeth Goudge

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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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cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

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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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Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

Elizabeth Goudge

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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

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The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Elizabeth Goudge

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