All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we shoul… - Frederick William Faber

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All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that are to be said about Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done; but that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.

Frederick William Faber

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Frederick William Faber (June 28, 1814 – September 26, 1863) was an English hymn writer and theologian.

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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.

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.

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

All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that are to be said about Him. Eternity will no… - Frederick William Faber

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