R.S. Thomas Quotes

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Success is the result of hard work.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.

Some things are better done than described.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

Where there is no common power, there is no law