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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

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

Thomas Dubay

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

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

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

Thomas Dubay

The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

Thomas Dubay

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

Thomas Dubay

Thomas Dubay

Born: December 30, 1921

Died: September 26, 2010 (aged 88)

Bio: Father Thomas Edward Dubay, S.M., was an American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director.

Known for:

Deep Conversion/ Deep Prayer (2006)
Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within (2002)
The evidential power of beauty (1999)

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