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

- 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 nake…

- Austin Farrer

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

- Austin Farrer

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is deat…

- Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

- 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

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 ma…

- 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

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

- Austin Farrer