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  1. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.
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  2. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.
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  3. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
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  4. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty.
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  5. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.
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  6. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence.
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  7. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know,
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  8. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    ...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.
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  9. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    I like the way everything is clear and concise, you'll always be forgiven but you must know the rules
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  10. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Is it easier to be than to do?
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  11. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    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.
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  12. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    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.
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