Farrer Quotes & Sayings

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace. — Austin Farrer

Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive. — Charlie Hunter

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden. — Reginald Farrer

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain. — Thomas Sowell

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers. — Elisha Cuthbert

Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. — Austin Farrer

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God. — Austin Farrer

The best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents. — Austin Farrer

Well . . . he don't bite and he don't bide, so fuck him. — Stephen King

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. — Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident — Austin Farrer

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. — Austin Farrer

The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of the writing with its brilliantly-conceived analogies is itself enough to win a reader to his side. As Austin Farrer expressed it, We think we are listening to an argument; in fact we are presented with a vision; and it is the vision that carries conviction. — Humphrey Carpenter

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. — Reginald Farrer

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship. — Austin Farrer

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen. — Austin Farrer

I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me. — Reginald Farrer

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live. — Joyce Carol Oates

Faith begins where religious pretension ends — Austin Farrer

The rise of Donald Trump is explained not so much by the hatred of Muslims, but rather the hatred of just one Muslim. The one who is not a Muslim. — Lawrence O'Donnell

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything. — Milla Jovovich

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want. — Mallory Ortberg

Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea. — Josh Kaufman