Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber Cong. Orat.was a noted English hymn writer and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic priesthood. His best-known work 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth28 June 1814
long heaven desire
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; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.
fire long fuel
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
sacrifice self long
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
motivational opportunity long
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.
converted hence men religious speaking
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.
friendship rested
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
government evil attention
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
song strong weak
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
happiness kind produce
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!
rocks talent buried
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
good-luck waiting best-of-luck
He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.
love mind secret
Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
heart rooms left
God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.
winning doubt would-be
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.