“Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God,… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“God disposes all. From the highest to the lowest extreme of a man’s scope, wherever justice and retribution can reach him, so… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“... there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“When I want to hear my echo,” said Brother Cadfael, “I will at least speak first.” — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it?… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
