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 pr… - Morris West

One solved nothing by waving the commandments like a bludgeon at people's heads. There was no point in shouting damnation at a man who was already walking himself to hell on his own two feet. One had to pray for the Grace of God and then go probing like a good psychologist for the fear that might condition him to repentance or the love that might draw him toward it.

I don't like making pacts with tomorrow. I want today — just as it is, good and bad. I feel safe that way. I don't want to face the great perhaps.

You are not born to peace, my friend. This is the first thing you must accept. You will not come to it, perhaps, till the day you die. Each of us has his own cross, you know, made and fitted to his reluctant shoulders.