Inspirational Quotes by Frederick W. Faber
“Take life all through, its adversity as well as its prosperity, its sickness as well as its health, its loss of its rights as well as its enjoyment of them, and we shall find that no natural sweetness of temper, much less any acquired philosophical equanimity, is equal to the support of a uniform habit of kindness.”
“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”
topics: 人生
“There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. Many persons, whose manners will stand the test of speaking, break down under the trial of listening. But all these things should be brought under the sweet influences of religion.”
topics: Kindness
“Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.”
“Let us hide our pains and sorrows. But, while we hide them, let them also be spurs within us to urge us on to all manner of overflowing kindness and sunny humor to those around us. When the very darkness within us creates a sunshine around us, then has the spirit of Jesus taken possession of our souls.”
topics: Kindness
“With the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed, it is not speedily lost.”
topics: Kindness
“The habit of judging is so nearly incurable, and its cure is such an almost interminable process, that we must concentrate ourselves for a long while on keeping it in check. We must grow to something higher, and something truer, than a quickness in detecting evil.”
topics: Judging
“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”
“I find great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to talk scandal. They regard it as a sort of evidence of their own goodness.”
topics: Gossip
“Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.”
topics: 友谊
“Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps, at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”
topics: 信心
“Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.”
topics: Christianity
“Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”
topics: Cheerfulness
“Now, if the Councils, the Fathers, and even experience show us that the best means of remedying the irregularities of Christians is by making them call to mind the obligations of their Baptism, and persuading them to renew the vows they made then, is it not only right that we should do it in a perfect manner, by this devotion and consecration of ourselves to Our Lord through His holy Mother? I say "in a perfect manner," because in thus consecrating ourselves to Him, we make use of the most perfect of all means, namely, the Blessed Virgin.”
“2. Maria viveu sua vida no anonimato, motivo pelo qual é chamada de Alma Mater pela Igreja e pelo Espírito Santo: Mãe escondida e secreta. Sua humildade foi tão profunda que ela não teve neste mundo pretensão mais poderosa e mais contínua do que a de esconder-se a si mesma e a toda criatura, para ser conhecida unicamente por Deus.”
“7. Os santos disseram coisas admiráveis dessa cidade santa de Deus; e jamais foram mais eloquentes e mais contentes do que quando o fizeram, como eles mesmos o confessam. Em seguida, eles exclamam que a altura de seus méritos, que ela elevou até o trono da Divindade, não se pode perceber; que a largura de sua caridade, cuja extensão é maior que a da terra, não se pode medir; que a grandeza de seu poder, que ela tem sobre o próprio Deus, não se pode compreender; e, por fim, que a profundeza de sua humildade e de todas as suas virtudes e graças, que constituem um abismo, não se pode sondar. Ó altura incompreensível! Ó largura inefável! Ó grandeza imensurável! Ó abismo impenetrável!”
“Let not that man presume to look for the mercy of God who offends His holy Mother.”
“10. Em seguida, é preciso dizer, em verdade, com os santos: De Maria, nunquam satis (“Sobre Maria, nunca [se diz] o bastante”). Ainda não se louvou, nem se exaltou, nem se honrou, nem se amou, nem se serviu suficientemente Maria.[2] Ela merece ainda mais louvores, respeito, honra, amor e serviços.”
“13. Meu coração veio ditar tudo o que há pouco escrevi, com uma alegria especial, para manifestar que a divina Maria tem sido desconhecida até aqui, e essa é uma das razões pelas quais Jesus Cristo não é conhecido como lhe convém. Portanto, é certo que o conhecimento e o reino de Jesus Cristo apenas se concretizarão no mundo em decorrência necessária do conhecimento e do reino da Santíssima Virgem Maria, que o trouxe ao mundo pela primeira vez, e o manifestará de modo maravilhoso pela segunda.”
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Frederick William Faber, British hymn writer and theologian, was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, where his grandfather, Thomas Faber, was vicar.
In January 1837, he was elected fellow of National Scholars Foundation. Meanwhile, he had given up the Calvinistic views of his youth, and had become an enthusiastic follower of John Henry Newman.
He accepted the rectory of Elton in Huntingdonshire, but soon after went again to the continent, in order to study the methods of the Roman Catholic Church. After a prolonged mental struggle, he joined the Catholic Church in November 1845.
Faber published a number of prose works, and three volumes of hymns, among the most well known is Faith of Our Fathers.