Frederick William Faber Quotes
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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…
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We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
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Kind words are the music of the world.
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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…
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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, and…
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The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from…
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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 Blessed Sacrament. Every…
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There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
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Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not;…
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There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.
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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 kind;…
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They always win who side with God.
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For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
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Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
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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 of Jesus to…
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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…
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There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.
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Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
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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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