Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman QUOTES

1 " M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration. "

― Walter M. Miller Jr. , Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

3 " It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day. "

― Walter M. Miller Jr. , Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

5 " The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His task is to rid himself of ego so that consciousness, once its usual discordant mental content is dumped out of it through ritual prayer and meditation, may experience nonself as a living formlessness and emptiness into which God may come, if it please Him to come. "

― Walter M. Miller Jr. , Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

7 " The room had apparently been used as a prison by the Texarki before; the walls were filled with intricate but illiterate scratchings—faces, smiles and frowns, a sun, various interpretations of the male and female body. The wall looked to Blacktooth like the surface of a monk's brain, the scratchings on the soul that a man learns to live with and, usually, hopefully, eventually, to ignore. "

― Walter M. Miller Jr. , Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman