Frederick William Faber Quotes
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.
The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
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?
Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.
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.
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.
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!
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.