{"author":"Elizabeth Goudge","author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["phrases","words"],"id":9797,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["education","gifts","individual","service"],"id":15388,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"...Whatever happens I'll not be afraid again; for, when you've once pushed through the place of torment to the peace beyond, you know that you can do it again. You know there's a strength somewhere that you can call upon. You've confidence.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["confidence","peace","strength","unafraid"],"id":25286,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"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.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["evil","good-and-evil","love"],"id":42694,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["joy"],"id":45536,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["creativity","philosophy"],"id":52432,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["age","children","grandparents","old","stars","wisdom","youth"],"id":66920,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?' he asked. 'Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["story"],"id":74304,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ills with patience.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["living-life"],"id":74661,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["creativity","genius"],"id":75354,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}