R.S. Thomas Quotes

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

Every noble work is at first impossible.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

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

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

Being busy does not always mean real work.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.