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Frederick William Faber

Frederick William Faber C.O. (28 June 1814 – 26 September 1863) was a noted English hymn writer and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic priesthood. His best-known work is Faith of Our Fathers. Though he was a Roman Catholic writing for fellow Catholics at that point, many of his hymns today are sung by Protestant congregations.

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Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

Desire, Eternity, Heaven, Learn, Long, Praise

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

Christian, Gospel, Inspiring, Leads, Music

Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

Abate, Kindness, Men, Merciful, Prejudice, Self

Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.

Fagot, Fagots, Fastened, Hour, Littles, Time

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

Hymns, Oratory, Sea, Wideness

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

Love, Mind, Ones, Secret

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.

Depth, Elements, Intelligent, Mind, Objects

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.

Criticisms, Deeds, Judgemental, Kind Thoughts, Rarer, Thinking

Many 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.

Christian, Wise, Names, Unacquainted, Christians, Name

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?

Day, Easter, God, Heaven, Imprisoned, Strong

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

Cold, Freewhere, Growing, Love, Love Is, World

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Doubt, Falter, Win, Winning, Would Be

The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination

Angel, Blessed, Fascination, Jesus, Misery, Sacrament

For right is right, since God is God.

Disloyalty, God, Right

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!

Explain, Happiness, Kind, Made, Produce

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Life, Men, Passed, Perceived, Thinking, Wise

We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.

Christian, Sweet, Jesus, Things, Long

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

Long, Sacrifice, Self, Thicker, Word

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Buried, Christian, Disappointment, Disappointments, God, Wills

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?

Attention, Evil, Government, Religion, Tremendous, Vain

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