7 Quotes by Scott Cairns

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

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.

Theology is a distinctly rare, a puzzling study, given that its practitioners are happiest when the terms of their discovery fall well short of their projected point; this is where they likely glimpse their proof.

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

Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when, to be frank, wholesale destruction didn’t sound so bad, considering. You remember, we were all disappointed. That the world never ended meant we had to get out of bed after all...

RecreationAnd 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.

Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity.