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

  Frederick William Faber

  Love, Secret, Mind

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

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Hopeless, Darkening

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.231

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• 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.

  Frederick William Faber

  Sunshine, Simple, Simplicity

  Frederick William Faber (1867). “Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber”, p.55

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• Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ?

  Frederick William Faber

  Christian, Queens, Blessed

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The Blessed Sacrament: or, The works and ways of God: By Frederick William Faber”, p.502

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• 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

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  Jesus, Blessed, Angel

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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• Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

  Frederick William Faber

  Details, Littles, Little Things

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• We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

  Frederick William Faber

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Wings, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Poems ... Second edition”, p.198

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• 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.

  Frederick William Faber

  Christian, Wise, Names

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

  Frederick William Faber

  Winning, Doubt, Would Be

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.116

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

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Talent, Buried

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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• Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.

  Frederick William Faber

  Time, Littles, Fagots

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• The music of the Gospel leads us home.

  Frederick William Faber

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

  'Oratory Hymns' (1854) 'The Pilgrims of the Night'

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• Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

  Frederick William Faber

  Home, Exercise, Self

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• Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

  Frederick William Faber

  Kind, Persons

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.48

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• There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

  Frederick William Faber

  Integrity, Character, Self

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.163

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• For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

  Frederick William Faber

  Children, Fortune Cookie, Noise

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.57

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• 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

  Easter, Strong, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.88

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• 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

  Government, Evil, Attention

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life”, p.91

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• 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.

  Frederick William Faber

  Art, Littles, Majesty

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.20

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• 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.

  Frederick William Faber

  Intelligent, Mind, Depth

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Sir Lancelot. A poem”, p.5

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

  Frederick William Faber

  Sea, Hymns, Oratory

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

  Frederick William Faber

  Love Is, World, Growing

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Hymn Book of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri”, p.33

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• Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

  Frederick William Faber

  Song, Strong, Weak

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.199

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• For right is right, since God is God.

  Frederick William Faber

  Disloyalty

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.116

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