"I do believe I begin to grasp the……" — Ellis Peters
"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."
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24 Quotes by Ellis Peters
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is…
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in…
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people…
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