Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• Darkness
• Shame
• Shield

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• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

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• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

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• The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

  

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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

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• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

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• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

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• I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

  

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• I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

  

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• I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.

  

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• It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

  

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• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

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• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

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• If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

  

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• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

  

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• At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

  

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• Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

  

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• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

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• Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

  

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• Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Build
  • Loneliness

• The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Shame