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These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.Elizabeth Goudge
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The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.Elizabeth Goudge
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The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.Elizabeth Goudge
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One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.Elizabeth Goudge
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...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.Elizabeth Goudge
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In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.Elizabeth Goudge
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We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.Elizabeth Goudge
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He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.Elizabeth Goudge
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I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion, " said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it. .Elizabeth Goudge
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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.Elizabeth Goudge
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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.Elizabeth Goudge