Elizabeth Goudge

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QUOTATIONS ARCHIVE

This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment.  They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy.  They speak of a lifestyle of non-violence.   They seek to eliminate cruelty and suffering.  They seek to wake us up.   They seek to give us hope.

Elizabeth Goudge
(1900-1984)

"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..."