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Morris West

I claim no private lien on , only ato seek it,it in , and to bea thousand times to reach a single rightness.
— Morris West time
It costs so much to be a fullbeing that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the , to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace thelike a lover, and yet demand no easy return of . 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.
— Morris West love
I can write no more today. The contemplation of my sorry state has reduced me to so deep a melancholy that I contemplate opening my wrist likeand lapsing quietly into oblivion. Unlike Petronius, however, I shall have neither the sound of music nor the gentle talk of friends. I still have time to choose a better moment — besides, who knows to what nightmares I might awake.
— Morris West time
Once you accept the existence of— 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.
— Morris West relationship
A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials ofwho was burned at the stake in 1600.
— Morris West men
There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting —
— Morris West love
No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!"
— Morris West love
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
— Morris West words
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
— Morris West truth
O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.
— Morris West music
I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
— Morris West man
To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!
— Morris West man
You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.
— Morris West man
I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.
— Morris West words
Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.
— Morris West life
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. 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.
— Morris West spiritual
"Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
— Morris West life
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, youll never enjoy the sunshine.
— Morris West life

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