Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.