Farrer And Co Quotes & Sayings

The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster. — Tyler Christopher

'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

I'm alert, full of purpose, free. An few the first time in a long time, I can breathe. — Moira Young

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

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

Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark? — Leigh Bardugo

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

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me. — Andrew Lincoln

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

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

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman

Faith begins where religious pretension ends — Austin Farrer

Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world. — George MacDonald