Frederick William Faber , est un poète et théologien britannique, converti au catholicisme ; il est devenu membre de la congrégation de l'Oratoire. Il est le fondateur de l'Oratoire de Londres . Wikipedia
“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)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 567.
The Greatness of God.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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)
The Rosary and Other Poems, On the Ramparts at Angoulême; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 769-70.
Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 369.
“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.
"On Kindness in General", Spiritual Conferences (1860).
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 215.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,
Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”
The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Pilgrims of the Night.
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.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 44.
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)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 238.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 260.
