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"We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations."
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Elizabeth Goudge
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Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. Goudge was long a popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later. In 1993 her book The Rosemary Tree was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the "new" novel set in India was warmly reviewe
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"Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on."
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"There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom."
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"The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth."
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"A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it."
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"For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering."
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