Quotes from Vincent McNabb

Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?

Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.

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.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

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

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

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