66 Quotes by Frederick William Faber

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

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.

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.

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

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?

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

He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

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

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