“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, Hymns (1871), "Come to Jesus", st. 13Share
“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
“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”— Laurence SterneShare
“Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.”— Josh BillingsShare
“The moral life presents itself as the response due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man.”— Pope John Paul IIShare
“Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.”— E. M. ForsterShare
“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”— Edward AbbeyShare
“Love, passionate young Love, how sweet it is / To have the bosom made a Paradise / By thee—life lighted by thy rainbow smile!”— Letitia Elizabeth LandonShare
