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Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free."
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

But man proposes, God disposes.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows - that was the visible sign.

Saint Olav turned her eyes toward Christ on the cross - see, Kristin: God's love.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

One cannot escape dogmas - those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

No doing without some ruing.

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ...

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All that had happened and would happen was meant to be. Everything happens as it is meant to be.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.