It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.
Morris WestYou know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Morris WestThe fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
Morris WestNo 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 like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
Morris West