Frederick William Faber citations

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  

✵ 28. juin 1814 – 26. novembre 1863
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Frederick William Faber: Citations en anglais

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

Frederick William Faber

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

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

Frederick William Faber

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)

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

Frederick William Faber

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

“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”

Frederick William Faber

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

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

Frederick William Faber

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

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

Frederick William Faber

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

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

Frederick William Faber

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

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