“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.

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British hymn writer and theologian 1814–1863

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