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Frederick William Faber Quotes (1814-1863)
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About Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber (June 28, 1814 – September 26, 1863) was an English hymn writer and theologian.
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“Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”
“This world is … only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.”
“There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.”
“Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”
“O Paradise! O Paradise!
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?”
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?”
“For right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.”
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.”
“O Paradise! O Paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land,
Where they that love are blest?”
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land,
Where they that love are blest?”
“Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains
Thou hast the largest share,
And that which is unbearable
'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.”
Thou hast the largest share,
And that which is unbearable
'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.”
“We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.”
“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.”
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of the Lord.”
“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.”
“O Majesty unspeakable and dread!
Wert Thou less mighty than Thou art,
Thou wert, O Lord! too great for our belief,
Too little for our heart.”
Wert Thou less mighty than Thou art,
Thou wert, O Lord! too great for our belief,
Too little for our heart.”
“The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a well-spring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy grace over all who come within our reach.”
“Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling
O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more!”
O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more!”
“How are we to overcome temptations? Cheerfulness is the first thing, cheerfulness the second, and cheerfulness the third. The devil is chained. He can bark, but he cannot bite, unless we go up to him and let him do so.”
“Is the amount of scrupulous attention which 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?”
“See! he sinks
Without a word; and his ensanguined bier
Is vacant in the west, while far and near
Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,
Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry
Amid thy cloud-built streets.”
Without a word; and his ensanguined bier
Is vacant in the west, while far and near
Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,
Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry
Amid thy cloud-built streets.”
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Frederick William Faber on Work 2 quotes
“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.”
Frederick William Faber on Thought
Frederick William Faber on Kindness
Frederick William Faber on Devil
Frederick William Faber on Faith
“Faith is a letting down our nets into the untranparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”
Frederick William Faber on Worry
Frederick William Faber on Simplicity
Frederick William Faber on Easter
“Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?”
Frederick William Faber on Evil speaking
“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 on Sunset
“See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and near Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks, Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry Amid thy cloud-built streets.”
Frederick William Faber on Suffering
“There is seldom a line of glory written upon the earth's face, but a line of suffering runs parallel with it; and they that read the lustrous syllables of the one, and stoop not to decipher the spotted and worn inscription of the other, get the least half of the lesson earth has to give.”
Misattributed Quotes
Quotes mistakenly credited to Frederick William Faber
“Many indeed 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.”
About Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber (June 28, 1814 – September 26, 1863) was an English hymn writer and theologian.