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I had been instructed, over and over again until it was the only thing I seemed to know, that the Virg—that God—wanted me to defend Him. I must uphold God’s law, and to do so, I must defeat those who wish to subvert His law. And that is what I did. I killed men in the name of God. Men, who, in another time and place, might have been kind to me as a child. Why were they my enemy? Because they believed that Jesus Christ was just a man and not the Son of God? Does that make them any less deserving of my compassion?”
All titles are unwarranted, Raphael,” Sir John said. “Whether or not we live up to them is what matters.”
“My simple life is of little import to you, though my heart is enriched by the knowledge that you will fret about having an undue effect on my thoughts.”
“Every day I ask God this question: what have I really accomplished? What have I done that has made any difference?”
“A small repast does a great deal to restore a man, does it not? More so, perhaps, than a banquet.”
Music, like violence, crossed all languages. These were the oldest and most complete ways of communicating that people possessed.
