Top 40 Frederick William Faber Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.”

— Frederick William Faber

2. “Kind words are the music of the world.”

— Frederick William Faber

3. “The music of the Gospel leads us home.”

— Frederick William Faber

4. “They always win who side with God.”

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber

6. “Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”

— Frederick William Faber

7. “Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”

— Frederick William Faber

8. “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.”

— Frederick William Faber

9. “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

10. “Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song which had lost its way and come to earth.”

— Frederick William Faber

11. “Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.”

— Frederick William Faber

12. “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.”

— Frederick William Faber

13. “There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.”

— Frederick William Faber

14. “There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.”

— Frederick William Faber

15. “We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.”

— Frederick William Faber

16. “God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.”

— Frederick William Faber

17. “The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”

— Frederick William Faber

18. “Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.”

— Frederick William Faber

19. “We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait.”

— Frederick William Faber

20. “Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.”

— Frederick William Faber

21. “Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.”

— Frederick William Faber

22. “Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.”

— Frederick William Faber

23. “Every hour comes with some little fagot of God’s will fastened upon its back.”

— Frederick William Faber

24. “Many a friendship – long, loyal, and self-sacrificing – rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.”

— Frederick William Faber

25. “For right is right, since God is God.”

— Frederick William Faber

26. “Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.”

— Frederick William Faber

27. “For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?”

— Frederick William Faber

28. “Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.”

— Frederick William Faber

29. “There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.”

— Frederick William Faber

30. “Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?”

— Frederick William Faber

31. “Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!”

— Frederick William Faber

32. “Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.”

— Frederick William Faber

33. “We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.”

— Frederick William Faber

34. “We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator’s majesty.”

— Frederick William Faber

35. “It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.”

— Frederick William Faber

36. “We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.”

— Frederick William Faber

37. “It has been curiously remarked by St. Andrew Avellino that those who have a special devotion to the Passion generally die quiet and sweet deaths, as the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary Magdalen did. Certainly it is remarkable that, while most of those close to Our Lord died violent deaths, the three who assisted at Calvary should have died so softly, as if already their real death had been died there.”

— Frederick William Faber

38. “A spiritual life, without a very large allowance of disquietude in it, is no spiritual life at all. It is but a flattering superstition of self-love.”

— Frederick William Faber

39. “Even a well-founded suspicion more or less degrades a man. His suspicion may be verified, and he may escape some material harm by having cherished the suspicion. But he is unavoidably the worse man in consequence of having entertained it.”

— Frederick William Faber

40. “Her sorrows went up into regions of sublimity, of which we can form only the vaguest conceptions. They went down into profound depths of the soul, which we cannot explore because they have no parallel in ourselves. They were heightened by the unappreciable perfection of her nature, by the exuberant abundance of her grace, by the exceeding beauty of Jesus, and above all by His Divinity.”

— Frederick William Faber

41. “I reckon failure to be the most universal unhappiness on earth. Almost everybody and everything are failures – failures in their own estimation, even if they are not so in the estimation of others. Those optimists who always think themselves successful are few in number, and they for the most part fail in this at least, namely, that they cannot persuade the rest of the world of their success.”

— Frederick William Faber

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

— Frederick William Faber