Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
silence grace may
May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
jesus humility heart
Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.
beautiful doe dull
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.
thinking people lazy
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.
The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.
joy miles joy-of-life
You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.
spiritual mean order
Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as if creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.
children character gun
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.
religious consciousness form
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.
order complacency vices
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.
mean long evil
Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good....
country names teach
Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.
long assuming center-of-the-universe
The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
hurt mean order
In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.