Morris West

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

— Morris West

#life #never #spend #storm #sunshine

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. ↗

— Morris West

#institutions #members #prone #their #vices

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. ↗

— Morris West

#any #corruption #failure #failures #follies

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. ↗

— Morris West

#all things #caught #center #define #existence

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

#always #enough #i #interest #interests

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! ↗

— Morris West

#cage #drunk #ever #god #greeks

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

#always #enough #i #interest #interests

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

#divine #function #god #his #image

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#creature #experiences #his #man #nightmare

The 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 West

#gets #go #goes #learning #learning process