R S Thomas Quotes
Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?
When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.
His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.
In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.
Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.
Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.
Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.
But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.
Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.
Outwardly I was all confidence and openness
Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this
Were you always such a snake, " the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?
In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.
She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke
Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...
Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you
...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.
She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.
Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.
In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.
These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.
Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...
...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.
Thomas had lived in fear and terror the past few weeks, but this was almost too much. To feel safe only to have that snatched away again.
But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another
The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
Newt shook his head, his face a mixture of anger and awe. “What you did was half brave and half bloody stupid. Seems like you’re pretty good at that.
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern
I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults
I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.