R.S. Thomas Quotes

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]

God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

The dove is my emblem.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?