Gerald Vann Quotes

United Kingdom, Theologian
August 24, 1906 – July, 14, 1963.

Gerald Vann, O.P. was a British Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. He was born in St Mary Cray, Kent. He joined the Dominican Order in 1923 and was ordained a priest in 1929.

If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.

Gerald Vann
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

Gerald Vann
- Long
- Church
- Scandal

Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life

Gerald Vann
- Life
- Christian
- Part
How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

Gerald Vann
- People
- Believe
- Love
The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

Gerald Vann
- Persons
- Reverence
- Blades
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Gerald Vann
- People
- Thinking
- Mean
Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Gerald Vann
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Gerald Vann