In This House of Brede
Rumer Godden
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.”
“I wish I knew when I was going to die,' ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, 'I wish I knew.' 'Why, Dame?' 'Then I should know what to read next.”
“I like the way everything is clear and concise, you'll always be forgiven but you must know the rules”
“Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.”
“Is it easier to be than to do?”
“remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know,”
“It would have been far easier to write about an active Order; people can see, understand and admire the good they do. ‘Sister,’ said a young American soldier when, in India, he watched a nun bandaging the rotting and malodorous finger stumps of an old leper, ‘Sister, I wouldn’t do your work for ten thousand dollars a day.’ ‘Neither would I,’ said the nun.”
“...and as she stood on the Ashford platform waiting for the small train to come in, she seemed already separated from the people around her. Tomorrow I shall not be among you anymore; not of you but mysteriously still with you, thought Philippa. As Lady Abbess of Brede had said, "People think we renounce the world. We don't. We renounce its ways but we are still very much in it and it is very much in us.”
“I can’t,’ but it was acceptance now. ‘I can’t,’ whispered Dame Catherine, ‘so You must.”
“When you have become God’s in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.”
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