R.S. Thomas Quotes
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.
Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.
Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust.'
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.