R.S. Thomas Quotes

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made.

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Faith is God's work within us.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.