R.S. Thomas Quotes

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

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

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.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream,Never give up!

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

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

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

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

Government is best which governs least

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

Never, never, never postpone following a prompting.

Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.