David

“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”
― Ken Follett, Hornet Flight

“I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth