“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”
Frederick William Faber Quotes
1814 – 1863
English Catholic priest and hymn writer.
“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”
“Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”
“Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind deeds.”
“To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?”
“A spiritual life without a very large allowance of disquietude in it is no spiritual life at all.”
“I find great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to take scandal.”
“The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.”
“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”
“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.”
