Ken Follett, The Pillars Of The Earth Quotes
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.
He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.
Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.
It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.
A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.