Top 37 Frederick William Faber Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

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#5. Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

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#6. We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.

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

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#8. There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

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#9. We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait.

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#10. 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?

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#11. Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

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#15. For right is right, since God is God.

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#16. They always win who side with God.

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#17. The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, Whom will we serve?

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#18. For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

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#19. Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.

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

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

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#22. There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

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#23. Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

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#24. The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

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

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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.

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#29. Sorrow is a sanctuary as long as self is kept outside. [ ... ] let us not foster, embrace, rekindle and indulge our grief. For then our sorrow is a selfish and luxurious fiction, a ground in which the Holy Spirit will not dig.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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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#32. There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

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#33. Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.

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#34. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

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#35. 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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#36. Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

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#37. Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

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