R.S. Thomas Quotes
One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.
The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.
Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.
The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”“Awesome.”“Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.
I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.
She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.
Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.
You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?
The petty worries of theschool room must not be carried to your home or boarding place.
The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher iswanted, and the second thing is to make the school officials believe you are just the person forthe position.
Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
Never bet against the man in the mirror.
The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.
To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!
A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.
I don't talk about the mountain I talk to the mountain because my boss broke down the China wall of those days (JERICHO) with mere word....
He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.
At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.
Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.
At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.
What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.
All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…
He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.
Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.
I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…