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Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.
— Ellis Peters Dead Man's Ransom
Tags: mercy, justice, god, divine-judgment

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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
Tags: value, people, myself, love
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
— Ellis Peters
Tags: perpetual, every, only, spring
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 Peters The heretic's apprentice
Tags: stigma, sainthood, religion, orthodoxy, labels, heresy, dogma, doctrine
I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
— Ellis Peters The Leper of Saint Giles
Tags: tolerance, religion, openmindedness, goodness, equality, crusades, christianity
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
— Ellis Peters The raven in the foregate
Tags: truth, ellis-peters, cadfael
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