16 Quotes by Tim Farrington

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. REINHOLD NIEBUHR.

She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day’s wave of vanity had passed.

God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world.

I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;.

But deep prayer, prolonged prayer, is a terrible mirror – kneel there long enough and everything shows. There’s no way out of eventually seeing your phoniness and dishonesty.

She had a fleeting sense of his God out there somewhere, like the sea itself, invisible and dangerous, a vastness wrapped in darkness, just a long fall away.

We expect God’s presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.