R.S. Thomas Quotes

Let us also go, that we might die with him

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Integrity reveals beauty.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Work while others are wishing.

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Good design is good business.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Never despair, keep pushing on!