Quotes
Authors
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." --
Source : Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press
Thomas Dubay
#Brother Quotes
#Humble Quotes
#Assuming Quotes
“I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.”
“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”
Source : Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
“I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.”
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“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.”
“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”
Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow”
“I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.”
“I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.”