Morris West

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

“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.”

“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.”

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