Quotes By Person: Tim Farrington

“And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway overpass and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth. God is dying children.”

-The Monk Downstairs, Tim Farrington

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“God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world. He is an unfathomable darkness. He's not what you want to hear.”

-The Monk Downstairs, Tim Farrington

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“There is a prayer that is simply seeing through yourself, seeing your own nothingness, the emptiness impervious to self-assertion. A prayer that is the end of the rope. A helplessness, fathomless and terrifying. Now matter how holy or well meaning you were when you started out, no matter how many fine experiences you had along the way, by the time you reach the point of this prayer, you want only to get out of it.

And God? God is that which will not let you out of it.”

-The Monk Downstairs, Tim Farrington

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