Sclater Quotes & Sayings

As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13). — Hayley DiMarco

My camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere. — Patti Smith

I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box. — Elmer Kelton

Entrance of the Rev. Clement Sclater
the minister of her parish, recently appointed. He was a man between young and middle-aged, an honest fellow, zealous to perform the duties of his office, but with notions of religion very beggarly. How could it be otherwise when he knew far more of what he called the Divine decrees than he did of his own heart, or the needs and miseries of human nature? — George MacDonald

The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov — Dannika Dark

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh? — Yves Montand

What Gibbie made of Mr. Sclater's prayers, either in congregational or family devotion, I am at some loss to imagine. Beside his memories of the direct fervid outpouring and appeal of Janet, in which she seemed to talk face to face with God, they must have seemed to him like the utterances of some curiously constructed wooden automaton, doing its best to pray, without any soul to be saved, any weakness to be made strong, any doubt to be cleared, any hunger to be filled. What can be less like religion than the prayers of a man whose religion is his profession, and who, if he were not "in the church," would probably never pray at all? — George MacDonald

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see. — Erin Morgenstern

Write whenever you can but choose a subject you know about and will want to work with for a few years or even longer... — Graham Sclater

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement. — Margaret Feinberg

Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought. — Carl Sandburg