Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Gerald Vann
Born: August 24, 1906
Died: July 14, 1963 (aged 56)
Bio: Gerald Vann, O.P. was a British Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. He was born in St Mary Cray, Kent. He joined the Dominican Order in 1923 and was ordained a priest in 1929.
Known for:
- The divine pity (1945)
- The Devil: And how to Resist Him
- The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God (1947)