Quotes from The Heretic — Morris West
1916–1999 Australia
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
The Heretic (1968)
I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
The Heretic (1968)
You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.
The Heretic (1968)
To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!
The Heretic (1968)
I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.
The Heretic (1968)
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
The Heretic (1968)
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.
The Heretic (1968)