Frederick William Faber Quotes

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Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Faber
Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
How sang the angelic choir that day,
When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Frederick William Faber
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Frederick William Faber
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Frederick William Faber
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.

Frederick William Faber
Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

Frederick William Faber
Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains
Thou hast the largest share,
And that which is unbearable,
Tis Thine, not ours to bear.

Frederick William Faber
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

Frederick William Faber
Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.

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Faith of our Fathers! Mary's prayers
Shall win our country back to thee
And by the truth that comes from God
England shall then indeed be free.

Frederick William Faber
We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.

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Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

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There is seldom a line of glory written upon the earth's face, but a line of suffering runs parallel with it; and they that read the lustrous syllables of the one, and stoop not to decipher the spotted and worn inscription of the other, get the. least half of the lesson earth has to give.

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Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick William Faber
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

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Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

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God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

Frederick William Faber
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Frederick William Faber
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick William Faber
Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten.

Frederick William Faber
My God, how wonderful Thou art!
Thy Majesty how bright!

Frederick William Faber
No kind action ever stopped with itself. Fecundity belongs to it in its own right. One kind action leads to another. By one we commit ourselves to more than one. Our example is followed. The single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make fresh trees, and the rapidity of the growth is equal to its extent. But this fertility is not confined to ourselves, or to others who may be kind to the same person to whom we have been kind. It is chiefly to be found in the person himself whom we have benefited. This is the greatest work which kindness does to others, that it makes them kind themselves.

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I have no cares, O blessed Will!
For all my cares are Thine;
I live in triumph, Lord, for Thou
Hast made Thy triumph mine.

Frederick William Faber
Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled,
And care is light, for Thou hast cared;
Let not our works with self be soiled,
Nor in unsimple ways ensnared.
Through life's long day and death's dark night,
O gentle Jesus! be our light.

Frederick William Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.

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Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling
O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat shore;
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more.

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O Paradise! O Paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
Where they that love are blest?

Frederick William Faber
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

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Faith of our Fathers! living still
In spite of dungeon, fire, and sword...
We will be true to thee till death.

Frederick William Faber