Elizabeth Goudge Quotes About Children
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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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...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.
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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)
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The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
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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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