“The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a workingman's kitchen. They talked with… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.” — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“One solved nothing by waving the commandments like a bludgeon at people's heads. There was no point in shouting damnation at a man who… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“I believe in saints as I believe in sanctity. I believe in miracles as I believe in God, who can suspend the laws of… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief.… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he's planted a carcinoma… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“He spoke a kind of ecclesiastical jargon; a debased rhetoric that explained nothing but brought the truth into disrepute. It begged all the questions… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“Look at yourself! You're a priest. You know damn well that if I were setting out to make a girl at this moment instead… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear.… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
“We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
