R.S. Thomas Quotes

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

In the end, we know God as unknown.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

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We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.