One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

by Ellis Peters

The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.

So it always is, he thought, to relieve another you must burden yourself.

for every untimely death, every man cut down in his vigour and strength without time for repentance and reparation, is one corpse too many.

God disposes all. From the highest to the lowest extreme of a man’s scope, wherever justice and retribution can reach him, so can grace.”