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The step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small, almost accidental, that I wonder why it astonishes you at all, or why you trouble to reason about it. If it were reasonable it could not be miraculous, could it?

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer
The Holy Thief (1992)

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God does indeed forbid that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame.

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer
The Rose Rent (1986)

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