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Category: Ellis Peters

Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. – Pg. 254

humanity, innocence, thoughts-of-the-mind

Questions are as supple as willow wands, it’s easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.

boundaries, privacy, questions

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

corruption, good-and-evil, right-and-wrong

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

eternity, salvation, souls

If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have.” – Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

humanity, life-experience

But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it quite comfortably that we’re humankind, and not angels.

atonement, cadfael, guilt, penance, shame

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.

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.

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.

free-will, judgment, penance, responsibility, self-determination

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.

daring, forgiveness

It’s a kind of arrogance to be so certain you’re past redemption.

forgiveness, humility

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn’t been wasted,’ owned Cadfael generously, ‘if something’s been learned.

knowledge, learning, wisdom