“Master Builder” quotes from The Pillars of the Earth

It's gone, smashed. We're finished. You can't rebuild a cathedral without its relic.

A skull's a skull, Philip. We don't even know it was his.

What about the miracles?

I've been praying to that skull for years to save my poor sister from the street. Useless!

It does take belief, too.

Yes, but what if people believe another skull is his? One from the ossuary. There's thousands. And who's to say the monk whose head we choose isn't a saint?

Because that would be a lie!

Not a lie, a... a leavening, a means to an end. And the end is God's glory.

What makes you think there'll even be a new church?

Tom Builder

Because I will build it. You house us, you feed us and I will defer payment. This may be the Devil's work, but it was God that sent you a master builder.

Tom Builder

I want you to make a statue of St. Adolphus.

Jack

Me? I've never worked in stone.

Tom Builder

That's not true. I saw the carvings you did in the cave. I think you'll manage.

Jack

I wouldn't know where to start.

Tom Builder

Take your time. Experiment. Listen.

Jack

To what?

Tom Builder

To the stone.

Waleran

You really want to rebuild your church, huh?

Yes, Father, I do. The cathedral is God's shadow over history, Father. We... we live in a world that is striving for order, which is art, which is learning, which is people creating something that will bring God's heart into their community, that will survive wars and famine, that will survive history.

Waleran

I thought I was ambitious.

My freedom is not for sale.

King Stephen

My loyal subject, Percy Hamleigh, is the Earl of Shiring. He shall have the castle and all arable lands and low-lying pastures. All other farmlands, I give to... the Priory of Kingsbridge for the building of the new cathedral.

And the quarry?

King Stephen

Goes to the Hamleighs. But you may take what stones you need.

[Surprised that the terms he agreed on with Regan Hamleigh are altered] But... but that's not...

King Stephen

Enough. My decision stands.