Farrer Co 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

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

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

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

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit. — Sun Ra

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else. — John Irving

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes. — Jenny Slate

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

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. — Elizabeth McCracken

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

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. — Kenneth L. Pike

I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in. — Melina Marchetta

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

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented. — Vernon Howard

Faith begins where religious pretension ends — Austin Farrer

Swing at the strikes. — Yogi Berra

Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! — Jeff Kinney