Thomas Dubay Quotes

#1. The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

Thomas Dubay

#2. In everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

Thomas Dubay

#3. Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

Thomas Dubay

#4. Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

Thomas Dubay

#5. It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

Thomas Dubay

#6. Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Thomas Dubay

#7. Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery
which is part of its splendour.

Thomas Dubay

#8. Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else.

Thomas Dubay

#9. The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

Thomas Dubay

#10. The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide.

Thomas Dubay