Frederick William Faber Quotes
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
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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 on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
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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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I have no cares, O blessed Will!For all my cares are Thine;I live in triumph, Lord, for ThouHast made Thy triumph mine.
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Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
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The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
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If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.
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Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
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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.
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If our love were but more simple,We should take Him at His word;And our lives would be all sunshineIn the sweetness of the Lord.
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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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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
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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.
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Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swellingO’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;How sweet the truth those blessed strains are tellingOf that new life when sin shall be no more.
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They always win who side with God.
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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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Dear Lord! in all our loneliest painsThou hast the largest share,And that which is unbearable,Tis Thine, not ours to bear.
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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
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For right is right, since God is God,And right the day must win;To doubt would be disloyalty,To falter would be sin.
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Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
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See! he sinksWithout a word; and his ensanguined bierIs vacant in the west, while far and nearBehold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cryAmid thy cloud-built streets.
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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?