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

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

- Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

- 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

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

- 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