R.S. Thomas Quotes
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.
It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.