Frederick William Faber Quotes

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

O Paradise! O Paradise!
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

The one chosen shadow of God upon earth.

For right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.

To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

When men do anything for God, the very least thing, they never know where it will end, nor what amount of work it will do for Him. Love's secret, therefore, is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

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

See! he sinks
Without a word; and his ensanguined bier
Is vacant in the west, while far and near
Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,
Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry
Amid thy cloud-built streets.

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.

Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.

Other things being equal, a person beginning the spiritual life with a taste for reading has a much greater chance both of advancing and of persevering than one who is destitute of such a taste. Experience shows that it is almost equal to a grace. The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.

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

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they imply also a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

This world is … only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.