The Road to Jerusalem Quotes

“Ne postoje granice onoga što čovjek može naučiti, samo granice koje sami povučemo u svojim glavama.

[Kraljevstvo na kraju puta]”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“Reading is a foundation o every knowledge an all the pure and the wise thoughts.”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“One who hesitates, digs himself a grave.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“An offence with words is the worst offence.Word kills”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“...where wine enters, smartness goes away...”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“...don't let the pride take over reason”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“Hesitation is a half way to death”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God’s plans.”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“...nothing should make it haste without thinking first.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“One who judges too soon, condemns himself.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“Joy and disappointment, at the same time, are not a good combination, as is mixing a wine and an ale in the same jug.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“The one who never draws a bow, never strikes.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“Do we not give the Lord the greatest promises in the most dire moments?”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“What use do we have from the untruth when we eat together in peace and when each of us has given his word not to harm one another”
― Jan Guillou, The Knight Templar

“Power without conscience was doomed to lapse into evil.”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“We who are strong are obliged to help the weak with their burdens, and should not think of ourselves. Each of us must think of his neighbor, of what is good and edifying.”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“According to Arn, the most important thing to learn about power was to understand that it could be both evil and good, and that only a well-trained eye could distinguish one from the other.”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“human being begins by loving himself for his own sake. The next stage in development is that humans learn to love God”
― Jan Guillou, The Road to Jerusalem

“Thought precedes action just as the dawn precedes the day,”
― Jan Guillou, The Templar Knight

“If all our foes were like Al Ghouti, we would never win,’ he said thoughtfully. ‘On the other hand, if all our foes were like him, victory would no longer be necessary.”
― Jan Guillou, The Templar Knight: An Epic Medieval Adventure of Faith and War in the Holy Land

“en el Cantar de los Cantares, 8, 6-8.”
― Jan Guillou, Del Norte a Jerusalén (Trilogía de las Cruzadas nº 1)

“When you raise a sword, don't think about who are you going to kill, but who are you going to spare.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“That what you see is not always what it looks like i don't judge anyone by his robes.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“In war, information is a half victory or defeat.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“I wanted to conquer your heart, not to stop it.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“Fortitudo/sapientia - strength and bravery/wisdom and humility”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“... no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“Silver is stronger than the sword, and people married to a family of each other draw sword on each other.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“I've given them an offer which they could hardly refuse.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road