R.S. Thomas Quotes

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

Whose silence are you?

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

I make very basic country rustic furniture.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

The more they pay you the more they will respect you and enjoy your show.

With more [distribution] channels, it's important to have 'must-have' content and brands that cut through the clutter.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross

Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­ - but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton's] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department?

Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Opportunities are everywhere. Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight and ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart.

Each of us can do something to help someone.

As we emulate His example, we will bless lives, including our own.

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

Heavenly Father has a picture of you on His dresser. He loves you and will help you. Call upon Him.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.