“How are we to overcome temptations? Cheerfulness is the first thing, cheerfulness the second, and cheerfulness the third.”— Frederick William Faber, Growth in Holiness, or The Progress of the Spiritual Life (1855), Ch. XIV, pp. 292-293Share
“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”— Frederick William FaberShare
“Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”— Frederick William FaberShare
“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”— Frederick William FaberShare
“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”— EpictetusShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
