Frederick William Faber Quotes

Frederick William Faber C.O. 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.

✵ 28. June 1814 – 26. November 1863
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Famous Frederick William Faber Quotes

“I have no cares, O blessed Will!
For all my cares are Thine;
I live in triumph, Lord, for Thou
Hast made Thy triumph mine.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 44.

“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,
Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”

The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 363.

Frederick William Faber Quotes about love

“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.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.

“Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.

“The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?”

Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Frederick William Faber Quotes

“For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.”

The Right Must Win. Compare: "That right was right, and there he would abide", George Crabbe, Tales, Tale xv, "The Squire and the Priest".
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“See! he sinks
Without a word; and his ensanguined bier
Is vacant in the west, while far and near
Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,
Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry
Amid thy cloud-built streets.”

The Rosary and Other Poems, On the Ramparts at Angoulême; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 769-70.

“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.

“Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains
Thou hast the largest share,
And that which is unbearable,
Tis Thine, not ours to bear.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 99.

“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.”

The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 238.

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