He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
Ken FollettTag: politics work entitlement reward
It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.
Ken FollettTag: sleep humorous meditating
Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.
Ken FollettTag: humorous monks religious-practices
What you’re doing is wrong,” he said. “I mean evil. To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It’s far worse than any sin.
Ken FollettTag: happiness life-decisions
They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers.
Ken FollettSuch disappointments, betrayals and reconciliations were the stuff of married life, but she and Jack had gone through them before the wedding. Now, at least, she felt confident that she knew him. Nothing was likely to surprise her. It was a funny way to do things, but it might be better than making your vows first and getting to know your spouse afterward.
Ken FollettTag: love marriage relationships hardship
How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
Ken FollettTag: life old-age lifes-work
He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.
Ken FollettTag: inspirational christianity faith religious
He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would speak to the king. What gave him the right?
Ken FollettTag: prior-philip
It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.
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