"If God be God and man a creature……" — 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."
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19 Quotes by Morris West
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must…
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables…
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the…
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in…
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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and…
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small…
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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to…
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him -…
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good…
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Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the…
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost…
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
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God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
— Abigail Adams
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
— Bruce Barton
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own…
— Anita Brookner
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