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I have been about the world long enough to know that God’s plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.
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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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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world’s end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn’t been wasted,′ owned Cadfael generously, ’if something’s been learned.
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When a dutiful brother came to relieve him, he went to his bed, and slept as soon as he lay down. He had the gift. There was no profit in laying awake fretting for what would, in any case, have to be faced on awaking, and he had long ago sloughed off the unprofitable. It took too much out of a man, of what would be needed hereafter.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there’s no escape from either.
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Beware how you pass judgment on your superiors,” he said mildly, “at least until you know how to put yourself in their place and see from their view.
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The lodging arrangements had certainly been inspired, though whether by an angel or an imp remained to be seen.
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The saint is a good Welshwoman, and knows her countrymen. We are not quick in respect to rank or riches, we do not doff and bow and scrape when any man flaunts himself before us. We are blunt and familiar even in praise. What we value we value in the heart, and.
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