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> [ “\[The writer\] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t it?” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/the-writer-has-to-be-the-kind-of-man-who-turns-the-world-upside-down/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

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## More by Morris L. West

> [“If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/if-prayer-fails-i-am-in-a-greater-darkness-yet-not-knowing-whether-i/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/i-was-lost-a-long-time-without-knowing-it-without-the-faith-one-is/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/one-solved-nothing-by-waving-the-commandments-like-a-bludgeon-at/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/i-don-t-believe-in-miracles-only-unexplained-facts/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“I believe in saints as I believe in sanctity. I believe in miracles as I believe in God, who can suspend the laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/i-believe-in-saints-as-i-believe-in-sanctity-i-believe-in-miracles-as/)

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> [“The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/the-man-who-does-good-in-doubt-must-have-so-much-more-merit-than-one/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/i-can-t-tell-you-why-god-made-you-the-way-you-are-any-more-than-i-can/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“He spoke a kind of ecclesiastical jargon; a debased rhetoric that explained nothing but brought the truth into disrepute. It begged all the questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/he-spoke-a-kind-of-ecclesiastical-jargon-a-debased-rhetoric-that/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/each-of-us-can-walk-only-the-path-he-sees-at-his-own-feet-each-of-us/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/look-at-yourself-you-re-a-priest-you-know-damn-well-that-if-i-were/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/i-feel-the-life-slipping-out-of-me-when-the-pain-comes-i-cry-out-but/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/we-are-ants-on-the-carcass-of-the-world-spawned-out-of-nothing-going/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/one-has-to-abandon-altogether-the-search-for-security-and-reach-out/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/even-in-sin-the-act-of-love-done-with-love-is-shadowed-with-divinity/)

[Morris L. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-l-west/)

> [“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-l-west/other-priests-he-knew-found-an-intense-pleasure-in-the-raw-salty/)

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