Farrer Quotes

#1. Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Paulo Coelho

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

Reginald Farrer

#3. 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

#4. Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#5. A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.

John Hagelin

#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. '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

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

Austin Farrer

#9. It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

William Weld

#10. 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

#11. I really pride myself in being able to combine soft and hard characteristics. If I do a leather jacket, then it will be with a really pretty feminine blouse underneath.

Bridget Kelly

#12. I redeem time from neglect and apathy and inattentiveness when I swell with thanks and weigh the moment down and it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full.

Ann Voskamp

#13. Faith begins where religious pretension ends

Austin Farrer

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

Reginald Farrer

#15. 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

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

Austin Farrer

#17. When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

Richard Branson

#18. 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

#19. That's the miracle of babies, their ability to lay bare the tender, beating hearts of raging assholes.

Heather Armstrong

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

Austin Farrer

#21. I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

Ronaldo

#22. I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

Chuck Mangione

#23. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

Pope Francis