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
character self independence
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
home exercise self
The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. And it is a short road to unselfishness, for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.
sacrifice self long
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
kindness men self
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; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.
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.