Frederick William 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 ra…"

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

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

"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 va…"

"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 spotte…"

"No kind action ever stopped with itself. Fecundity belongs to it in its own right. One kind action leads to another. By one we commit ourselves to more than one. Our example is followed. The single ac…"

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

"Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves."