Scratchers Quotes & Sayings

The prescription for spiritual transformation has often been too individualistically oriented. We are encouraged to engage in spiritual disciplines so that we might have the power to do what we can't do by will power alone. But what happens when people don't have the "will power" to engage spiritual disciples on a consistent basis? Our character is left untended. "In a wild world like ours, your character, left untended, will become a stale room, an obnoxious child, a vacant lot filled with thorns, weeds, broken bottles, raggedy grocery bags, and dog droppings. Your deepest channels will silt in, and you will feel yourself shallowing. You'll become a presence neither you nor others will enjoy, and you and they will spend more and more time and energy trying to be anywhere else."[1] So what are we to do? — J.R. Woodward

In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see. — Charles Simic

You want to bang something too, sonny, you can borrow my shovel! — Abigail Roux

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing

To be clear: More than anything, I wish I hadn't gone into that closet with Brian. But their story wasn't over that night. — Jandy Nelson

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision. — Ben Horowitz

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all. — Vince Lombardi

The purpose of judo strategy is to turn an opponent's strength into weakness. — Anonymous

objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man. — Mark Clifton

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you. — W. Somerset Maugham

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard. — Frank Herbert