Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber Cong. Orat.was a noted English hymn writer and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic priesthood. His best-known work is Faith of Our Fathers. Though he was a Roman Catholic writing for fellow Catholics at that point, many of his hymns today are sung by Protestant congregations...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth28 June 1814
government evil attention
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
world majesty temples
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.
kindness charity world
Kind words are the music of the world.
rocks talent buried
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
jesus blessed soul
He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament
jesus blessed angel
The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination
christian sweet jesus
We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.
christian queens blessed
Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ?
success perseverance determination
We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.
long heaven desire
Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.
love-is world growing
The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
sunshine simple simplicity
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.
hymns sea oratory
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
fire long fuel
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.