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Father Thomas Edward Dubay (December 30, 1921 – September 26, 2010), S.M., was an American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director. He wrote over 20 books on Catholic spirituality, in which he emphasized the importance of renewed conversion and contemplative prayer, and he traveled worldwide to teach at parishes, seminaries, and monasteries.

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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.

Book, Humble, Lukewarm, Prayer, Publicly

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.

Aching, Earth, Matter, Needs, Readily

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.

Developing, Failure, Life Is, Prayer, Problem, Radicality

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

Beauty, Mystery, Part, Shrouded, Splendour

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.

Admission, Believe, Enough, Men, Stranger, Teacher

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.

Book, Creator, Faith, Five, Inspiration, Intellect

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

Being In Love, Comparison, Know, Love Is, Saint, Saints

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.

Clearly, Humble, Know, Local, People, Views

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.

Assuming, Brother, Brothers, Humble, Learn, Listen

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Alive, Boredom, People, Reality