16 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don’t seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

That’s where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.