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“I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.”

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.

Life

“I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!”

Morris West

The Heretic (1968)

Love , God , Reading

“I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.”

Morris West

The Heretic (1968)

Men , Sense

“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!”

Morris West

The Heretic (1968)

Animals

“[W]hen you get to Rome you have two other rules to learn: never assume that what you see is what is; never believe that what you're told is the whole truth. It's only when you've grasped that — and the Romans know you've grasped it — that you begin to win respect and make progress.”

Morris West

Cardinal Francis Spellman in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 67
The Lovers (1993)

Truth , Making love , Learning

“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 Heretic (1968)

God , Life