Divine Quote by Morris West

“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

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“The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences ”

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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…

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