Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

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Novelist and children's writer · English · 1900–1984

English novelist and children's writer (1900–1984)

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“The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

education gifts individual service

“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some har...”

— Elizabeth Goudge

act-of-will love theology

“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

faith unity