R.S. Thomas Quotes
We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.
