“The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.”
“The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.”
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“Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.”
Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate“There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.”
Ellis Peters“Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.”
Ellis Peters“There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.”
Ellis Peters“Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.”
Ellis Peters“Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.”
Ellis Peters“Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.”
Ellis Peters“He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,”
Ellis Peters“Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.”
Ellis Peters“There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.”
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