“We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.”— Frederick William Faber, Spiritual Conferences (1859), Ch. I: Kindness, § 2: Kind Thoughts, p. 46Share
“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
“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
“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
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”— Friedrich NietzscheShare
