Quotes from Frederick William Faber

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.

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 song which had lost its way and come to earth.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

For right is right, since God is God.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

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

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Kind words are the music of the world.

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

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

They always win who side with God.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

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.

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 an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

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 song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.