Frederick William Faber Quotes
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For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
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Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
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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!
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The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?
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O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.
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Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.
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Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.
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Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
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Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
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Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. 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.
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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?
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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 to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
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We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.
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Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
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Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
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We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
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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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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.
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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 heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
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There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.
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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 one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament
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The music of the Gospel leads us home.
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Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.
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We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.
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There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.
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The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
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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.
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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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