Scott Cairns quotes

Scott Cairns quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.”
-- Scott Cairns

Source : "Peering into the Looming Lenten Dark" by Scott Cairns, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

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“Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity”
-- Scott Cairns

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“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.”
“Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.”
“If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.”
“Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.”
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.”

Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
“You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.”
“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”
“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”

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