Elizabeth Goudge

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.

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.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Not quite birds as they were not quite flowers mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.