Quotes by F. W. Faber

I have no cares, O blessed Will!    For all my cares are Thine; I live in triumph, Lord, for Thou    Hast made Thy triumph mine.

— F. W. Faber

Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains      Thou hast the largest share, And that which is unbearable      'Tis Thine, not ours to bear.

— F. W. Faber

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?

— F. W. Faber

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.

— F. W. Faber

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 resposeful, so almost infinite have all things become, because we have found our Father in our God.

— F. W. Faber

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

— F. W. Faber

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

— F. W. Faber

Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled,      And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled,      Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night,      O gentle Jesus! be our light.

— F. W. Faber

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

— F. W. Faber