R. B. Thomas Quotes

Success depends on our using, and not opposing.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

What you are will show in what you do.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Love is the last light spoken.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.