Vincent McNabb Quotes

Irish - Clergyman | July 8, 1868 - June 17, 1943

That mystic clasp of love lies not on the threshold but at the end of spiritual life, and can be reached for the most part only after much spiritual exercising, many denials, self-denials, watchings, and, it may be, the Cross of pain and disillusionment.

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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

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We cannot go alone to God. We belong to His Mystical Body, the Church; by even our most secret sins, if they be grievous, we have injured the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and must ask forgiveness of His Mystical Body, too.

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One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.

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Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.

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St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition.

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Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

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Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?

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What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

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How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

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We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

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We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

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