Quotes by Frederick William Faber

About Frederick William Faber:

Frederick William Faber is Faith of Our Fathers. Though he was a Roman Catholic writing for fellow Catholics at that point, many of his hymns today are sung by Protestant congregations.
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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!

Frederick William Faber

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.

Frederick William Faber

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.

Frederick William Faber

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

Frederick William Faber

They always win who side with God.

Frederick William Faber

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.

Frederick William Faber

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

Frederick William Faber

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Frederick William Faber

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick William Faber

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.

Frederick William Faber

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.

Frederick William Faber

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

Frederick William Faber

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 ...

Frederick William Faber

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.

Frederick William Faber

Author Bio

  • NameFrederick William Faber
  • DescriptionBritish hymn writer and theologian
  • BornJune 28, 1814
  • DiedNovember 26, 1863
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPresbyter; Theologian; Poet; Hagiographer