Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

— 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…

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

They always win who side with God.

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In…

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

— 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…

— Frederick William Faber

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent…

— Frederick William Faber

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God,…

— 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

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

— Frederick William Faber

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men…

— 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…

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber