Thomas F. Wilson Quotes

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

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

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

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

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

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

A great man is made so for others.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

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

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.