20 ordspråk av Frederick W. Faber
Frederick W. Faber
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
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I know not what it is to doubt,
My heart is ever gay.
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I worship thee, sweet will of God!
And all thy ways adore;
To every day I live, I seem
To love thee more and more.
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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
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Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come on earth. It seems as if they could almost do what in reality God alone can do -- soften the hard and angry hearts of human beings.
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
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Life is one long joy, because the will of God is always being done in it, and the glory of God always being got from it.
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Many a friendship -- long, loyal, and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
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My God, how wonderful Thou art!
Thy Majesty how bright!
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Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
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Ride on, ride on, triumphantly,
Thou glorious will, ride on!
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Small things are best;
Grief and unrest
To rank and wealth are given;
But little things
On little wings
Bear little souls to heaven.
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
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The music of the Gospel leads us home.
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The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,
Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.
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