It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
Ellis PetersTags: humility forgiveness
God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
Ellis PetersTags: god
Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
Ellis PetersThe trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.
Ellis PetersTags: god
I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
Ellis PetersTags: equality christianity religion goodness tolerance crusades openmindedness
So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?
Ellis PetersTags: society humans strangers knowledge-of-people
Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.
Ellis PetersTags: humanity human-nature saintliness schadenfreude
They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis PetersTags: solitude courage thought reflection drinking confession beer alcohol withdrawal quietness taverns
What are wits for unless a man uses them?
Ellis PetersTags: intelligence thinking wits
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
Ellis PetersTags: religion dogma doctrine labels heresy orthodoxy sainthood stigma
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