"Angels come to help and guide us in as many guises as there are people who need their assistance. Sometimes we see their ethereal, heavenly shadow, bright with light and radiance. Sometimes we only feel their nearness or hear their whisper. And sometimes they look no different from ourselves." ~Elizabeth Goudge
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life." ~Elizabeth Goudge
"Peace, she supposed, was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self possible." ~Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984), English Writer and Artist