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It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
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There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.
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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.
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Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.
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He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
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... What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more." Cadfael, Pg. 255
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The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.
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The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
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