R.S. Thomas Quotes
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.
The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.
Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.
At times some may think that no one cares--but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone, but stands ever ready to help.
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.