Author: Vincent McNabb

Quotes

Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.

Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.

- Vincent McNabb

Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.

Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.

- Vincent McNabb

Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.

Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.

- Vincent McNabb

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

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

- Vincent McNabb

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.

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.

- Vincent McNabb

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.

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.

- Vincent McNabb

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.

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.

- Vincent McNabb

The Virgin Birth is possible if there is a God. An Omnipotent Being who can do all things and yet cannot do some things is hardly worth our attack or defence.

The Virgin Birth is possible if there is a God. An Omnipotent Being who can do all things and yet cannot do some things is hardly worth our attack or defence.

- Vincent McNabb

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

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

- Vincent McNabb

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