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dcb566f Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. people friends enemies Ellis Peters
04fd0f2 It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. humility Ellis Peters
d9c34e9 The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. stubbornness reason rationality Ellis Peters
e724990 If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still." completion fullfilment journey-s-end arrival homelessness belonging homecoming stillness attachment roots home Ellis Peters
6291483 I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles. Ellis Peters
9bfa0cf In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple. responsibility self-determination penance judgment Ellis Peters
066865f All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil. good-and-evil right-and-wrong Ellis Peters
e86e526 One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. labels religion stigma heresy sainthood orthodoxy dogma Ellis Peters
f13e3ec They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. solitude drinking courage taverns withdrawal beer confession reflection quietness thought Ellis Peters
9a09ec1 Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case. truth ellis-peters Ellis Peters
e1038fa Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all. Ellis Peters
d5d014c A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. responsibility courage death life Ellis Peters
64c706d Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely. self-determination freedom free-will life conduct-of-life giving Ellis Peters
8c8674c In every decision there must be some regrets. Ellis Peters
5e205a8 The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand. Ellis Peters
49ee4f9 In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly. life inspirational duty Ellis Peters
026e629 Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)" spirituality religion theology mystery Ellis Peters
2e65220 Child, [death] is with us always," said Cadfael, patient beside him. "Last summer ninety-five men died here in the town, none of whom had done murder. For choosing the wrong side, they died. It falls upon blameless women in war, even in peace at the hands of evil men. It falls upon children who never did harm to any, upon old men, who in their lives have done good to many, and yet are brutally and senselessly slain. Never let it shake your .. suffering faith trust justice Ellis Peters
3cef2f5 What are wits for unless a man uses them? wits thinking Ellis Peters
bcf3845 I value devotion and fidelity, and doubt if it matters whether the object falls short. What you do and what you are is what matters. Your loyalty is as sacred as mine. Ellis Peters
e3bc287 Perhaps thought really is prayer. Ellis Peters
f89ebad Nothing learned is ever quite wasted. Ellis Peters
b26c780 Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. salvation souls Ellis Peters
d7c7173 there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of the Christian church as most I've met within it. In the Holy Land I've known Saracens I'd trust before the common run of the crusaders, men honourable, generous and courteous, who would have scorned to haggle and jostle for place and trade as some of our allies did. Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under.. Ellis Peters
1bbf0c6 So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?" knowledge-of-people society strangers Ellis Peters
ea7d21d I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. equality goodness religion crusades openmindedness tolerance Ellis Peters
31fc448 Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint. humanity saintliness schadenfreude Ellis Peters
22a33ff It was a matter of principle, or perhaps of honour, with Brother Cadfael, when a door opened before him suddenly and unexpectedly, to accept the offer and walk through it. He did so with even more alacrity if the door opened on a prospect of Wales; it might even be said that he broke into a trot, in case the door slammed again on that enchanting view. Ellis Peters
0e5f79f When a dutiful brother came to relieve him, he went to his bed, and slept as soon as he lay down. He had the gift. There was no profit in laying awake fretting for what would, in any case, have to be faced on awaking, and he had long ago sloughed off the unprofitable. It took too much out of a man, of what would be needed hereafter. Ellis Peters
e5963d4 Now have ado with a man! Ellis Peters
921da67 My monk had to be a man of wide worldly experience and an inexhaustible fund of resigned tolerance for the human condition. His crusading and seafaring past, with all its enthusiasms and disillusionments, was referred to from the beginning. Only later did readers begin to wonder and ask about his former roving life, and how and why he became a monk. For reasons of continuity I did not wish to go back in time and write a book about his crusa.. Ellis Peters
645c5ff Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand. god mercy justice Ellis Peters
26f7058 And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one may stumble into a snare now and then, but at least enjoy sunshine along the way, between falls. The other may never miss his footing, but seldom experience joy. Better find a way somewhere between! youth joy trust Ellis Peters
7fd8690 I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand. Ellis Peters
6ba5a19 God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance. Ellis Peters
6b0f25f The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy. Ellis Peters
f55bbd4 When I want to hear my echo," said Brother Cadfael, "I will at least speak first." Ellis Peters
a0339d6 Say your prayers, think quietly what you should do, do it, and sleep. There is no man living, neither king nor emperor, can do more or better, or trust in a better harvest. Ellis Peters
2bd3669 It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent. Ellis Peters
e382b14 Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards. Ellis Peters
9fbf46d What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more." Cadfael, Pg. 255" do-good Ellis Peters
e16f075 Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome. Ellis Peters
160fd99 Even grief has its arrogance." "Then you have learned, my son, that vengeance belongs only to God?" "More than that, Father," said Luc. "I have learned that in God's hands vengeance is safe. However long delayed, however strangely manifested, the reckoning is sure." Ellis Peters
5348a39 Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all. But Ellis Peters
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