Quotes by : Morris West

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves,....

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....

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only....

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences....

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation.....

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed....

Look at yourself! You're a priest. You know damn well that if I were setting out to make a girl at this....

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty....

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.