R.S. Thomas Quotes

Light is the shadow of God.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

I Failed My Way To Success.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

No pressure, no diamonds.

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.