R.S. Thomas Quotes
The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
Perhaps you'll gave to kiss him again, if you're not sure. Gather more evidence. In the name of science.
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.
Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross."- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)
I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.
All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.
Stay encouraged and stay motivated! You are greater than you know.
Stop your dreams from being dreams by turning them into reality.
It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.
After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.
Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire
Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it—freedom, not reason—to pursue his plans for the future.
One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
Life's exciting seas cannot be sailed unless you're ready to leave the port behind.
Not every Gym Rat will become MVP, but every MVP is a gym rat.
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.
When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it’s simply your attitude.
The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.
Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.
Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds' influence on the lives of many people in Louisiana and elsewhere has been immeasurable. Countless hundreds will rise up in the last day to call her 'blessed.
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…
Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.
