R.S. Thomas Quotes

There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!

Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hairshimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer.“When are you coming home to me?” She said eloquently.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold, ' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

The world is in A major...the earth revolves in A major, a low A.

I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!

Choose your love. Love your choice.

That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.

The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.

Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...

Be true, unbeliever.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

If you seek happiness, look in the mirror. If you seek love, look elsewhere.

Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.

The rainbow is the pot of gold to those who observe.

When wealth flees, untrue friends follow.

It's time to have and enjoy magical moments in life, reposition yourself so magic happens.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

To the beginning of the rest of our lives.- Leo

It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.

Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.