Thomas Dubay Quotes & Sayings

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

A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunder is refreshing and not often heard in human affairs. It is the saint alone who is large-minded enough to think and speak in this way. This is part of his authenticity.
The person who is swift to hear and slow to respond is a stranger to an all-knowing illuminism. He believes that others, too, have some truth, and he is willing to be instructed by them. He is ready for the mind of God. — Thomas Dubay

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

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

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

Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary. — Thomas Dubay

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery
which is part of its splendour. — Thomas Dubay

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

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

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

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