“He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.”

“God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.”

“However, he often feels challenged by those whom he teaches the sword. His disciples call him to combat.”

“Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.”

“I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.”

“that man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect”