Morris West Quotes
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.
Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.
