0 0Geburtstag: 26. April 1916
Todesdatum: 9. Oktober 1999
Morris Langlo West war ein australischer Schriftsteller.
— Morris West
The Heretic (1968), Context: O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.
— Morris West
The Clowns of God (1981), Context: 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. You are also caught with the fact that 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.
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— Morris West
The Heretic (1968), Context: 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 like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
— Morris West
The Heretic (1968), Context: Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.
— Morris West
The Clowns of God (1981), Context: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
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This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
— Morris West
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963)
— Morris West
Cassidy (1986), Marius Melville in Ch. 17
— Morris West
The World Is Made of Glass (1983), London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 78
— Morris West
Masterclass (1988), Gisela Mundt in Ch. 10
— Morris West
Eminence (1998), Cardinal Luca Rossini in Ch. 8
— Morris West
The World Is Made of Glass (1983), London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 316
The speaker is an eighty-year-old Mother Superior explaining why she allowed the burial in the convent cemetery of a foreign woman, a collaborator in a charitable enterprise, who was an unbeliever.
— Morris West
Lazarus (1990), Pope Leo XIV in Ch. XV
— Morris West
Eminence (1998), Cardinal Luca Rossini and his daughter Luisa Ortega in Ch. 7
