R.S. Thomas Quotes

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

Fitness - Focus - Form.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

For man plans, but God arranges.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

God deceiveth thee not.

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

Youth doesn't take advice.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

It is very beautiful over there. (last words)

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.