James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
F. W. Faber
Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur—To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god.
Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
For right is right, since God is God, / And right the day must win; / To doubt would be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin.
He always wins who sides with God.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, / The protest of the weak against the strong.
Right is right, since God is God.
The love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind.
There is no place where earth’s sorrows / Are more felt than up in heaven; / There is no place where earth’s failings / Have such kindly judgment given.
Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky.