R.S. Thomas Quotes
Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.
Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.
The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.
An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
The manner with which we walk through life is each man's most important responsibility, and we should remember this with every new sunrise.
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.
The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
