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Quotes by Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident.
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The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident.
A climate in which belief may flourish.
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A climate in which belief may flourish.
The crucial revelatory images that express ‘the thought of Christ’ are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
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The crucial revelatory images that express ‘the thought of Christ’ are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
If God might be comprehended, he would not be God. An over-confident dogmatism is as fatal to theistic belief as scepticism itself; it pretends to prove and to define, only to discover that what it has defined and proved is not its Lord and God. You can no more catch God’s infinity in a net of words than... you can fish out the sea the glories of the dying day.
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If God might be comprehended, he would not be God. An over-confident dogmatism is as fatal to theistic belief as scepticism itself; it pretends to prove and to define, only to discover that what it has defined and proved is not its Lord and God. You can no more catch God’s infinity in a net of words than... you can fish out the sea the glories of the dying day.
Faith begins where religious pretension ends.
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Faith begins where religious pretension ends.
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
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Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Faith begins where religious pretension ends
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Faith begins where religious pretension ends
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.
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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.
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