Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Salvation is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

  

  Indra Devi
  • God
  • Myself
  • Religion

• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Remember
  • History

• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Progress

• Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Why
  • Game

• God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • God
  • Earth

• People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • God
  • Live

• My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • People
  • God
  • Inspiration

• I think everyone has shame about something, whether it's a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we're like, 'God, I can work on that,' or, 'I wish I was better at doing this.'

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Work
  • God
  • Relationship

• There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • God
  • Country

• Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

  

  Charles Buck
  • God
  • Kitchen

• If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Time
  • God
  • Home

• I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

  

  David Brainerd
  • God
  • Home
  • Mercy

• You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • God
  • Pain

• One of the most important things I tell my children is that hard work can pay off. You can’t quit. You can’t complain. You never claim it’s unfair or unequal.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Work
  • Important
  • Children

• God sent us here to make mistakes.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Mistakes
  • Make

• If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • People
  • Life
  • Criminal

• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • She
  • Think

• Salvation is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Salvation
  • Good Opinion