Elizabeth Goudge

"There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original eve…"

"Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition."

"The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth."

"A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it."

"In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another."

"We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations."

"For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as s…"

"There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom."