R.S. Thomas Quotes
I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.
It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.
Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.
Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.
Our Heavenly Father can appreciate our love for Him by how well we serve Him and how well we serve our fellowmen.
Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.
To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
One of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that we at least know what the Democrats stand for, whether we agree with it or not. But, for Republicans, we have to guess
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.
Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.