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Quotes from Ellis Peters

I value devotion and fidelity, and doubt if it matters whether the object falls short. What you do and what you are is what matters. Your loyalty is as sacred as mine.
~ Ellis Peters
Perhaps thought really is prayer.
~ Ellis Peters
Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.
~ Ellis Peters
Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)
~ Ellis Peters
So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?
~ Ellis Peters
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 Peters
In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.
~ Ellis Peters
Every Spring is the only Spring, a perpetual astonishment. It bursts upon a man every year, thought Cadfael, contemplating it with delight in spite of all anxieties, as though it had never happened before, but had just been shown by God how to do it, and tried, and found the impossible possible.
~ Ellis Peters
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
~ Ellis Peters
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
~ Ellis Peters
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
~ Ellis Peters
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
~ Ellis Peters
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
~ Ellis Peters
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
~ Ellis Peters
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
~ Ellis Peters
Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted, ' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
~ Ellis Peters
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~ Ellis Peters
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
~ Ellis Peters
Beauty is a perilous gift.
~ Ellis Peters
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
~ Ellis Peters
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
~ Ellis Peters