R.S. Thomas Quotes

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

Deliver total quality to every customer every day.

A fav'rite has no friend!

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Action will delineate and define you.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.

As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.

We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

The Lord is in the details of our lives.

There are those who struggle every day with challenges. Let us extend to them our concern, as well as a helping hand. As we care for each other, we will be blessed.

A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

Make room for the Lord in your homes and in your hearts, and He will be your companion. He will be by your side.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.