Scott Cairns Quotes & Sayings

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay. — Scott Cairns

Recreation

And when we had invented death,
had severed every soul from life
we made of these our bodies sepulchers.
And as we wandered dying, dim
among the dying multitudes,
He acquiesced to be interred in us.
So when He had ascended thus
into our persons and the grave
He broke the limits, opening the grip,
He shaped of every sepulcher a womb. — Scott Cairns

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

Christ's humanity occasions our divinity — Scott Cairns

I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away. — Scott Cairns