R.S. Thomas Quotes

My mind is my own church.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

Lessons learned in the home, last the longest.

You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

May we all make the journey to Bethlehem in spirit, taking with us a tender caring heart as our gift to the Savior.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

Through personal prayer, through family prayer, by trusting in God with faith, nothing wavering, we can call down to our rescue His mighty power.

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

Have an attitude of gratitude.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.