The Black Chalice Quotes

“Learn to listen, worldling, and to look.” Listen to the rain and the snap of fire, to the whispering of leaves, to the whispering of blood. Not as ordinary sounds — all men do that — but as the voices of another kind of being. Listen until you can hear the chanting in the shimmer of a star….”
― Marie Jakober, The Black Chalice

“I look at my brother monks; I see how contented they are, how confident and saintly, and I am almost reassured. Almost, but not quite… because I know they think the same of me. Brother Paul, they say, how good he is, how pure, how admirable in his virtue. Brother Paul, they say, is a saint. Perhaps, in the secret places of their souls, they endure the same emptiness, the same uncertainty, the same tormenting questions.”
― Marie Jakober, The Black Chalice