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  1. Ellis Peters _ The Summer of the Danes

    Every Spring is the only Spring, a perpetual astonishment. It bursts upon a man every year, thought Cadfael, contemplating it with delight in spite of all anxieties, as though it had never happened before, but had just been shown by God how to do it, and tried, and found the impossible possible.
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  2. Ellis Peters _ The Potter's Field

    Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome.
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  3. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
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  4. Ellis Peters _ The Pilgrim of Hate

    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.
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  5. Ellis Peters _ One Corpse Too Many

    What you do and what you are is what matters.
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  6. Ellis Peters _ The Pilgrim of Hate

    So Rhun had arrived at the last frontier of belief, and fallen, or emerged, or soared into the region where the soul realises that pain is of no account, that to be within the secret of God is more than well being, and past the power of the tongue to utter. To embrace the decree of pain is to translate it, to shed it like a rain of blessing on others who have not yet understood.
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  7. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.
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  8. Ellis Peters _ A Morbid Taste for Bones

    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
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  9. Ellis Peters _ Dead Man's Ransom

    ... What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more." Cadfael, Pg. 255
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  10. Ellis Peters _ The Leper of Saint Giles

    Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
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  11. Ellis Peters _ The Leper of Saint Giles

    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.
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  12. Ellis Peters _ The Pilgrim of Hate

    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.
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