Austin Farrer famous quotes

'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

#Life #Kindness #Common Sense

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

#Notion #Richness #Accidents

A climate in which belief may flourish
-- Austin Farrer

#Climate #May #Belief

It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but 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

#Philosophical #Climate #Doe

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

#May #Climate #Doe

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

#Scripture #Worship #Christ

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

#Goes On #Praying #Invisible

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

#Religion #Experts #Obedience

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

#Christian #Acting #Doe

Faith begins where religious pretension ends
-- Austin Farrer

#Religious #Ends #Pretension