Thomas F. Wilson Quotes

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

A great man is made so for others.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.