Vincent McNabb quotes
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“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”
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“Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.”
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“Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.”
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“Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you will discover the human foot. On discovering it, your joy will be as great as if you had invented it. But this joy is the greatest, because no human invention even of Mr. Ford or Mr. Marconi is within a mile of a foot.”
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“What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.”
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“There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.”
-- Vincent McNabb
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
Source : "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.
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“Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”
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Source : Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.10, Sounds True
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