“Probing the womb of the future is bad for the child.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Children Copy Share Image
“The dead must humor the mourners, he thought, and the sick must comfort the visitors. It was always so.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Dead Copy Share Image
“Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?” — Walter M. Miller Jr Doomed Copy Share Image
“When there was fear, men huddled in small groups and counted their friends on their fingers, and all else was Foe. ” — Walter M. Miller Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“man makes his own soul, but it dies with him, unless he can pour it into his kids and his grandchildren before… — Walter M. Miller Jr Spirituality Copy Share Image
“I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Christianity Copy Share Image
“Lucey had been younger then—younger and wilder, and not afraid of shame.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Foolishness Copy Share Image
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” — Walter M. Miller Jr Body-soul Copy Share Image
“For Man was a culture-bearer as well as a soul-bearer, but his cultures were not immortal and they could die with a… — Walter M. Miller Jr Man Culture Copy Share Image
“Sincere--that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity… — Walter M. Miller Jr Truth Copy Share Image
“You'll be asked to be the ass He rides into Jerusalem, but it's a heavy load, and it'll break your back, because… — Walter M. Miller Jr Priesthood Copy Share Image
“Could a man decide, 'I am right, and everyone else is wrong?' No evidence of a malfunction, he thought. I am not… — Walter M. Miller Jr Coward Copy Share Image
“But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got… — Walter M. Miller Jr Christianity Copy Share Image
“It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser,… — Walter M. Miller Jr Last day Copy Share Image
“Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Wisdom Copy Share Image
“Nayrol is without speech and therefore never lies…" (Nayrol is) one of the nature gods of the Red River people. Objective evidence… — Walter M. Miller Jr Communication Copy Share Image
“He could think only of the girl and the child. He was certain she had been ready to change her mind, had… — Walter M. Miller Jr Children Copy Share Image
“After the Guam conference ended, it was reported that Pope Gregory ceased to pray for peace in the world. Two special Masses… — Walter M. Miller Jr Justice Copy Share Image
“Tell me, how would you feel if everyone screamed and ran when they saw you coming, or hunted you down like a… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“He fought because it was considered the 'thing to do,' because he liked the people he had to live with, and because… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Earth - it was a place where you could stop being afraid, a place where fear of suffocation was not, where fear… — Walter M. Miller Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“Are you an atheist?" "Oh no, I honor all the gods." "And how many belong to that all ?" "Countless. And one… — Walter M. Miller Jr Too long Copy Share Image
“When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became… — Walter M. Miller Jr Darkness Copy Share Image
“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?" The monk nodded solemnly. "And that society… — Walter M. Miller Jr Heresy Copy Share Image
“Francis began the actual illumination of the lambskin. The intricacies of scrollwork and the excruciating delicacy of the gold-inlay work would, because… — Walter M. Miller Jr Aches and pains Copy Share Image
“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen… — Walter M. Miller Jr Long ago Copy Share Image
“Now a Dark Age seemed to be passing. For twelve centuries, a small flame of knowledge had been kept smoldering in the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Age of reason Copy Share Image
“We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your… — Walter M. Miller Jr Caesar Copy Share Image
“The Memorabilia, the abbey's small patrimony of knowledge out of the past, had been walled up in underground vaults to protect the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Time Copy Share Image
“There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted… — Walter M. Miller Jr Humanity Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his… — Walter M. Miller Jr Anti-intellectualism Copy Share Image
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Beauty Copy Share Image
“Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is… — Walter M. Miller Jr Fear Copy Share Image
“The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of… — Walter M. Miller Jr Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, but the freedom to speculate is essential-" "No one has tried to deprive you of that. Nor is anyone offended.… — Walter M. Miller Jr Freedom Copy Share Image
“Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
