Jim Vivanco

“I said, “Why does God let us suffer like this?” and he answered, “My dear young lady, how should I know? Job didn’t know, but he repented in dust and ashes.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

“love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

“Joanna, she realized, was not a mother who tormented her children with too much tidiness.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

“Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like a taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water