Farrer Co Quotes

#1. I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Adrienne Rich

#2. I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

Josh Homme

#3. All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

Reginald Farrer

#4. 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

#5. Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

Christopher Paolini

#6. 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

#7. Money could never have originated as paper.

James Cook

#8. '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

#9. Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Austin Farrer

#10. I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

Paul Newman

#11. If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

Adam Carolla

#12. Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Shannon Miller

#13. 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

#14. What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#15. Faith begins where religious pretension ends

Austin Farrer

#16. I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me.

Reginald Farrer

#17. 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

#18. The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Austin Farrer

#19. 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

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

Austin Farrer

#21. I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Sylvia Plath

#22. The time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was not mine already? What returns, what finally comes home to me, is my own self and what of myself has long been in strange lands and scattered among all things and accidents.

Friedrich Nietzsche