Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
wisdom artist ruins
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
being-true manifest knows
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
love wisdom prayer
Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
mean saint
For me to be a saint means to be myself.
keys understanding enemy
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
wisdom ambition way
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
peace war fall
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
prayer answers littles
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
appreciation liberty definitions
The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All.
wisdom prayer want
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
being-yourself saint
To be a saint is to be yourself.
christian spiritual unions
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
faith inspiration men
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
writing helping-others men
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.