Frederick William Faber: Quotes about life

Frederick William Faber was British hymn writer and theologian. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Frederick William Faber: 40 quotes3 likes

“Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled,
And care is light, for Thou hast cared;
Let not our works with self be soiled,
Nor in unsimple ways ensnared.
Through life's long day and death's dark night,
O gentle Jesus! be our light.”

Frederick William Faber

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 369.

“Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling
O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more.”

Frederick William Faber

The Pilgrims of the Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What another being is life when we have found out our Father; and if we work, it is beneath His eye, and if we play, it is in the light and encouragement of His smile. Earth's sunshine is heaven's radiance, and the stars of night as if the beginning of the beatific vision; so soft, so sweet, so gentle, so reposeful, so almost infinite have all things become, because we have found our Father in our God.”

Frederick William Faber

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 260.