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.
Wisdom
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Quotes by F. W. Faber
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Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share, And that which is unbearable 'Tis Thine, not ours to bear.
Wisdom
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?
Truth
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
Wisdom
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.
Success
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
Wisdom
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Education
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.
Success
Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.
Love
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.
Love
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.
Wisdom