14 Quotes by Morris West
- 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.
- 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.
- All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
- 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.
- Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
- I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
- 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 accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- You are also caught with the fact that 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.
- 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.
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