Frederick William Faber Quotes

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

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.

Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten.

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

Kind words are the music of the world.

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.

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

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.

They always win who side with God.

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.

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.

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 on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, “Whom will we serve?

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

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!

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

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.