“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 Blaise-meredith 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… — Morris L. West Atheism 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… — Morris L. West Blaise-meredith 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… — Morris L. West Believe in god 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… — Morris L. West Doubt 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… — Morris L. West Blaise-meredith 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… — Morris L. West Lack of education 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… — Morris L. West Belief 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… — Morris L. West Angel in heaven 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,… — Morris L. West Blaise-meredith 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… — Morris L. West Death Copy Share Image
“One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has… — Morris L. West Courage Copy Share Image
“Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its… — Morris L. West Done with love 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… — Morris L. West Christianity Copy Share Image
“[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t… — Morris L. West Writing Copy Share Image
