History is always written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future. | |
― Morris L. West | |
From his novel: “The Devil’s Advocate“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Lead To Action |
2018 | Listen And See |
2017 | The Big Illusion |
2016 | What Are You Thinking About? |
2015 | What The Framers Chose |
2014 | Lost Anything Lately? |
A Life Of Science | |
2013 | Serve The World |
2012 | Acquaintance, n. |
2011 | On Why His Father Was A Great Teacher |
A Baker’s Dozen | |
Posts Tagged ‘Morris L. West’
Explaining And Gilding
Posted in History, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Future, History, Morris L. West, Myths, Past, Philosophy, Quotes, The Devil's Advocate, Victors on September 17, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I Am Doubtful
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, God, Miracles, Morris L. West, Philosophy, Quotes, Saints, The Devil's Advocate on May 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I believe in saints as I believe in sanctity. I believe in miracles as I believe in God, who can suspend the laws of His own making. But I believe, too, that the hand of God writes plainly and simply, for all men of good will to read. I am doubtful of His presence in confusion and conflicting voices. | |
― Morris L. West | |
From his book: “The Devil’s Advocate“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | True Measures |
2017 | Hoping For Tapes |
In It Now | |
2016 | On Viewing This Mudball |
2015 | It Takes A Village |
2014 | In God’s Eyes |
2013 | We Root For Ourselves |
2012 | Like A Shark |
2011 | Discernible Virtue |
Nothing To Build On
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #IncompetentDonald, Morris L. West, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, The Devil's Advocate on October 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There are no questions of conscience, no constraints, except the constraints of custom, convention and the law, and these are flexible enough for most purposes. It is only later that terror comes. One is free – but free in chaos, in an unexplained and unexplainable world. One is free in a desert, from which there is no retreat but inward, toward the hollow core of oneself. There is nothing to build on but the small rock of one’s own pride, and this is a nothing, based on nothing… I think, therefore I am. But what am I? An accident of disorder, going no place. | |
― Morris L. West | |
From his novel: “The Devil’s Advocate“ | |
[For a number of reasons (particularly “the hollow core of oneself”), this quote just reminded me of our current President (#IncompetentDonald). I’m not sure if that says more about me or more about him. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | This One Is… |
2016 | Happy Is… |
2015 | Dare Yourself To |
2014 | Damned If You Do… |
2013 | On A Rainy Sunday |
2012 | Not Sure Anymore |
2011 | But What Does It Cost? |
2009 | Another Day, Another Diet… |
A Gift
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, God, Kiril Lakota, Life, Morris L. West, Philosophy, Pope Kiril I, Quotes, The Shoes Of The Fisherman on October 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
My brothers, if this is the last sound made by the last living man, it must be shouted loud and clear. Life is a gift of God. | |
— Kiril Lakota (Pope Kiril I) | |
The main character in the novel: “Shoes of the Fisherman“ | |
Written by: Morris L. West | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Unless You Genuinely Are Small |
2016 | B1 |
2015 | Five Things |
2014 | Have Faith |
2013 | Found In A Mine |
2012 | Two-Sided Coin |
2011 | Passionately Scorned Rules |
A Moment Of Union
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged God, Love, Morris L. West, Philosophy, Quotes, The Devil's Advocate on April 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Even in sin, the act of love – done with love – is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God – if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union – of body and spirit – and the act of faith is mutual and implicit. | |
― Morris L. West | |
From his novel: “The Devil’s Advocate“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Symptoms |
2016 | Tossers |
2015 | Hunger |
2014 | Outside Dependence |
2013 | Doing Right |
2012 | A Short Course In Human Relations |
If Death Be My Future | |
Strive | |
Such A Fool | |
2011 | I’m Working For A Living |
You Have Just Begun To Climb
Posted in Faith, Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Calvary, Cardinal Leone, Faith, Kiril Lakota, Morris L. West, Philosophy, Quotes, Religious Leadership, The Loneliness Of Popes, The Moment Of Solitude, The Shoes Of The Fisherman on April 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Kiril Lakota: [the shadow of the cross is on the Pope’s empty chair during this exchange of dialog] Leone, how does a man ever know if his actions are for himself or for God? | |
Cardinal Leone: You don’t know. You have a duty to act. But you have no right to expect approval, or even a successful outcome. | |
Kiril Lakota: So, in the end, my friend, we are alone? | |
Cardinal Leone: Yes. I have seen three men sit in this room. You are the last I shall see. Each of them, in his turn, came to where you stand now, the moment of solitude. I have to tell you there is no remedy for it. You are here until the day you die. And the longer you live, the lonelier you will become. You will use this man and that for the work of the church. But when the work is done, or the man has proved unequal to it, you will let him go and find another. You want love. You need it, as I do. Even though I am old. You may have it for a little while, but you will lose it again. Like it or not, you are condemned to a solitary pilgrimage, from the day of your election until the day of your death. This is a Calvary, Holiness. And you have just begun to climb. | |
— Morris West | |
The above conversation is from the movie adaptation of his novel: “In The Shoes Of The Fishermen“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Equal Protection Under Law |
2016 | A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion |
2015 | Or You Don’t |
2014 | If You Ever Fall… |
2013 | Glory Days (part 2) |
2012 | They Follow A Pattern – If You Know What I Mean |
What I Live For (Precis) | |
2011 | Giving |
Are You Waiting?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged In The Moment, Morris L. West, On Fear, Philosophy, Quotes on October 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. | |
― Morris L. West | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | The Future Myth |
2014 | Hands |
2013 | Because You Have Lived |
2012 | 47% |
2011 | Conservative Values: Low And Lax |
2010 | A Non-Zero Sum Game |
What If “c” Isn’t A Constant? | |
2009 | Pictures from UCLA trip… |
Otherwise Obscured
Posted in Faith, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Morris L. West, My Journal, On Errors, On Faith, On The Catholic Church, Philosophy, Quotes, The Shoes Of The Fisherman on August 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I am convinced, moreover, that honest error is a step toward a greater illumination of the truth since it exposes to debate and to clearer definition those matters which might otherwise remain obscure and undefined in the teaching of the Church. | |
— Morris L. West | |
From his novel: “The Shoes Of The Fisherman“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Fundamentals |
2013 | Proof – ing |
2012 | Deluge, n. |
2011 | Hail, Caesar! |
Why Were You Sent? | |
Embrace The World Like A Lover
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Morris L. West, My Journal, On Being Human, Philosophy, Quotes, The Shoes Of The Fisherman on August 10, 2015| 7 Comments »
It cost so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. | |
— Morris L. West | |
From his novel: “The Shoes of the Fisherman“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Democratic Beliefs (for the next President) |
2013 | And Go Now! |
2012 | A World Safe For Diversity |
2011 | What If I Don’t Want To? |
2009 | Restful Sunday and a Movie About Boys’ Dolls (Action Figures) |
Still Learning
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Loneliness, Love, Morris L. West, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, The Shoes Of The Fisherman on August 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
…I am still lonely often, as you are. But to be lonely is not to be unloved, but only to learn the value of love – and that it takes many forms and is sometimes hard to recognize. | |
— Morris L. West | |
From his book: “The Shoes of the Fisherman“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Dark Processes |
2013 | To The Last Link |
2012 | Slept In Again |
2011 | Home Again, Naturally |
2009 | Thoughts after a long day of OT… |