“The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.”

— Frederick William Faber, Spiritual Conferences (1859), Ch. IX, p. 363

About Frederick William Faber

1814 – 1863

English Catholic priest and hymn writer.

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

“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.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”