Religion Quotes by Frederick William Faber

8 Religion quotes by Frederick William Faber

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Frederick William Faber’s eight short statements on faith blend poetic expression with devotional depth. The collection feels like a brief hymn of belief.

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We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love…

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Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather…

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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…

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

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He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the…

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Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;…

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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…

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Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But…

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Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it,…

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

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The music of the Gospel leads us home.

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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.…

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

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Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not…

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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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Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James,…

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They always win who side with God.

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There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

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

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The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment for an…

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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…

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

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