One Corpse Too Many
Ellis Peters
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.”
“The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.”
“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.”
“So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?”
“Perhaps thought really is prayer.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What you do and what you are is what matters.”
“the good sense to fortify himself with the things of the flesh for the struggles of the spirit.”
“for every untimely death, every man cut down in his vigour and strength without time for repentance and reparation, is one corpse too many.”
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Book Keywords:
mercy, society, god, corruption, prayer, humans, right-and-wrong, eternity, strangers, justice, knowledge-of-people, good-and-evil
