Murder in the Cathedral

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

— Murder in the Cathedral

The pattern is the action and the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still be forever still.

— Murder in the Cathedral

Men learn little from others' experience. He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

— Murder in the Cathedral

Purpose is plain. Can sooner know accord.

— Murder in the Cathedral

All things become less real, man passes From unreality to unreality.

— Murder in the Cathedral

God is leaving us, God is leaving us, more pang, more pain, than birth or death.

— Murder in the Cathedral

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

— Murder in the Cathedral

First Priest: But again, is it war or peace?Messenger: Peace, but not the kiss of peace.

— Murder in the Cathedral

Servant of God has chance of greater sin But by what they are.

— Murder in the Cathedral

You shall forget these things, toiling in the household, Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

— Murder in the Cathedral

The church shall be open, even to our enemies. Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

— Murder in the Cathedral

You would bar the door Who would damn themselves to beasts. My Lord! My Lord!

— Murder in the Cathedral

We did not wish anything to happen. Living and partly living;

— Murder in the Cathedral

In the small circle of pain within the skull And we must think no further of you.

— Murder in the Cathedral

O father, father I see it.

— Murder in the Cathedral