Scaipe Quotes & Sayings

I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer. — J. Sidlow Baxter

mighty smug with their present, howsoever unenviable or contemptible their lives and the attitudes might appear others to be. While nearsightedness is not exactly an affliction (but just the thing a good doctor or spiritual healer might prescribe for leading an uncomplicated and happy life), farsightedness is nothing less than a full-blown syndrome. Forever whining, carping, criticizing, castigating, berating and bemoaning every aspect of national-societal life, the lot of the farsighted is pathetic indeed. And, this, when they have far less reasons to cavil, enjoy as they do generally a far better station in life than their nearsighted — D.P. Singh

If we met at a different time and place, I'd want you teach me how to be good. Because you're so good it makes me wish I had a heart. — Ainsley Booth

Apparently, when conditions were right, peoples of all world regions were quite capable of transforming wild plants into domesticated crops - a good point to keep in mind when next you hear someone claim that some cultures (usually their own) are more inventive or creative than others. — James Peoples

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. — Thomas Keating

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. — William Hazlitt