R.S. Thomas Quotes
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!
I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
