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

— Frederick William Faber, Spiritual Conferences (1859)

About Frederick William Faber

1814 – 1863

English Catholic priest and hymn writer.

“Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”

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

“Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”

“It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”

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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”

“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”

“There is, in the human breast, a social affection, which extends to our whole species.”

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”