The Old World Quotes

“None of us are, Cheri.” Matron was quiet, breathing hard. Charlotte thought she had gone to sleep, when Matron added, “It is in our imperfect struggles to be worthy that we prove we may just deserve His Grace.”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“but Paul spoke the finest truth. That love is the highest of all. Love…true love…it allows one to endure much, to bear the refining fire that burns away the dross, to leave us as the pure beings our Father intended.” Matron took the young nurse’s hand. “I see so much that is good and lovely in you, daughter. Yet I fear you have only begun your time in the fire.”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“Merry Christmas, my friend. I do this in His Name.”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“She simply lacked the mental armour to be a nurse, the ability to be both compassionate and hardened, the skill to be indifferent to immediate suffering in the pursuit of healing while at the same time being able to extend a woman’s kindness to those who were in pain. Nor did Alice understand how to face the dangers”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“Of human beings living in a way to bear witness to the beauty to be found within their souls in the very worst of moments.”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“he emerged from the mud, midwifed by the gravedigger and his brethren,”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“Life, she observed, her heart taking on a dizzying beat, life is made up of these moments, of these small moments when we choose not for ourselves, but for the well-being of another.”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World

“after long hours of facing down death, with men who had not seen a woman’s smile or felt the gentle touch of a feminine hand in months, the most fervent desire to be of service could transmute into mere stoical endurance under the simple grinding toil, as if turning gold into lead.”
― Roy M. Griffis, The Old World