R.S. Thomas Quotes
We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths.
When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.
An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.
Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.
Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.
Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...
Anyone who witnesses to the Grace of God revealed in Christ is undertaking direct assault against Satan's dominion.
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.
More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some sort of legacy
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.
