R.S. Thomas Quotes
For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.
Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.
For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!
I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!
We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.
What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.
Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.
Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.
Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.
Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.