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FREDERICK FABER – Author Quotes<\/div>\n

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\u201cHoliness is an unselfing of ourselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it is to be a creature\u201d (1857) Book II, The Creator and the <\/em>Creature or, The Wonders of Divine Love<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, p. 58; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay]\n

\u201cA creature means \u201cAll for God.\u201d Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.<\/span> To be a creature is to have a special intensified sonship, whose life and breath and being are nothing but the fervours of his filial love taking fire on his Father\u2019s bosom in the pressure of his Father\u2019s arms. The Sacred Humanity of the Eternal Son, beaming in the very central heart of the Ever-blessed Trinity, – this is the type, the meaning, the accomplishment, of the creature.\u201d (p. 58)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Creator and the Creature or, The Wonders of Divine Love <\/em>(1857) Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheCreatorAndTheCreature<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e576c5-f0d2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cKind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cKind Thoughts\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 22; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e576c5-f0d2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay]\n

\u201cKind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind 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.<\/span> Active-minded men are naturally the most given to criticize; and they are also the men whose thoughts are generally the most exuberant. Such men therefore must make kind thoughts a defence against self. By sweetening the fountain of their thoughts, they will destroy the bitterness of their judgments.\u201d (p. 22)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e576c5-f0d2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Spiritual Conferences<\/em> (1859) via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/a580835700fabeuoft#page\/n39\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cKind words are the music of the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cKind Words\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 32; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay]\n

\u201cKind words are the music of the world. They have the power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as though they were some angel\u2019s song, which had lost its way, and come to earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel\u2019s nature into us.\u201d (p. 32)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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“Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Kindness in General\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, pp. 6-7; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay]\n

“Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning; and these three last have never converted any one, unless they were kind also. In short, kindness makes us as Gods to each other. Yet, while it lifts us so high, it sweetly keeps us low. For the continual sense, which a kind heart has, of its own need of kindness, keeps it humble. There are no hearts to which kindness is so indispensable, as those that are exuberantly kind themselves.\u201d (pp. 6-7)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cK<\/strong>indness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudices of one.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Kindness in General\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 17; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Church address]\n

\u201cDevout people are, as a class, the least kind of all classes. This is a scandalous thing to say; but the scandal of the fact is so much greater than the scandal of acknowledging it, that I will brave this last, for the sake of a greater good. Religious people are an unkindly lot. Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudices of one<\/span>. There is a sort of spiritual selfishness in devotion, which is rather to be regretted than condemned. I should not like to think it is unavoidable. Certainly its interfering with kindness is not unavoidable. It is only a little difficult, and calls for watchfulness. Kindness, as a grace, is certainly not sufficiently cultivated, while the self-gravitating, self-contemplating, self-inspecting parts of the spiritual life are cultivated too exclusively.\u201d (p. 17)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cKindness puts us to no expense, while it enriches those who are kind to us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Kindness in General\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 12; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Church address]:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow kindness has all the virtues of praise without its vices. It is equally medicinal without having the poisonous qualities. When we are praised, we are praised at some expense, and at our own expense. Kindness puts us to no expense, while it enriches those who are kind to us.<\/span> Praise always implies some degree of condescension; and condescension is a thing intrinsically ungraceful, whereas kindness it the most graceful attitude one man can assume towards another.\u201d (p. 12)<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany a friendship long, loyal and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cKind Words\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 32; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Church address]:<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us then think, first of all, of the power of kind words. In truth there is hardly a power on earth equal to them. It seems as if they could almost do what in reality God alone can do, namely, soften the hard and angry hearts of men. Many a friendship long, loyal and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word<\/span>.\u201d (p. 32)<\/p>\n

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\u201cT<\/strong>he rule is that kindness makes men kind. As we become kinder ourselves by practicing kindness, so the objects of our kindness, if they were kind before, learn now to be kinder, and to be kind now if they were never so before. Thus does kindness propagate itself on all sides. Perhaps an act of kindness never dies, but extends the invisible undulations of its influence over the breadth of centuries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Kindness in General\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 13; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Church address]:<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in general the rule is that kindness makes men kind. As we become kinder ourselves by practicing kindness, so the objects of our kindness, if they were kind before, learn now to be kinder, and to be kind now if they were never so before. Thus does kindness propagate itself on all sides. Perhaps an act of kindness never dies, but extends the invisible undulations of its influence over the breadth of centuries.<\/span>\u201d (p. 13)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cThe single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make fresh trees, and the rapidity of the growth is equal to its extent. But this fertility is not confined to ourselves, or to others who may be kind to the same person to whom we have been kind. It is chiefly to be found in the person himself whom we have benefited. This is the greatest work which kindness does to others, that it makes them kind themselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Frederick Faber<\/strong>, English theologian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Kindness in General\u201d (c. 1858) from Faber\u2019s self-described \u2018Spiritual Conference\u2019 addresses delivered in London, England; in Spiritual Conferences<\/em>, London: Thomas Richardson & Son, 1859, p. 12; online via St. Mary\u2019s College of California & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531589281-1a7ccd5f-aa59094f-cf635381-89e576c5-f0d2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Frederick Faber\u2019s \u201cOn Kindness in General\u201d address was frequently re-quoted \u2013 and often repackaged without correctly acknowledging his authorship \u2013 by several sources in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n

One example comes from a popular newspaper essay feature in The Pittsburgh Post<\/em> by Reverend Morgan M. Sheedy<\/strong><\/span>. Sheedy rehashed a close paraphrasing of Faber\u2019s words in two separate essays printed in 1908 and 1910:<\/p>\n

\u201cA single act of kindness throws out roots in every direction and the roots spring up and make fresh flowers. This fertility is not confined to ourselves. It is chiefly to be found in the person whom we have benefited. The kindest people, as we know, and generally those who have received the greatest number of kindnesses<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Requote sources<\/em>: 1908 <\/u><\/strong>\u2013 Morgan M. Sheedy, \u201cAn Act of Kindness Never Dies but Extends the Waves of Its Influence Over Breadth of Centurers\u201d (19 July 1908) The Pittsburgh Post<\/em>, Vol. LXVI, No. 314, Pittsburgh, PA: Post Publishing Co., p. 2, column 4; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service] www.newspapers.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

1910 <\/u><\/strong>– Morgan M. Sheedy, \u201cThoughtfulness for Fellow Man Fills the World with Melody\u201d (18 September 1910) The Pittsburgh Post<\/em>, Vol.. LXIX, No. 9, Pittsburgh, PA: Post Publishing Co., p. 6, column 5; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service] www.newspapers.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKindness is infectious. One kind action leads to another. Our example is followed. This is the greatest work which kindness does to others \u2013 that it makes them kind themselves<\/strong>.<\/span>\u201d (p. 66)<\/p>\n

[Requote source<\/em>: Frances Xavier Lasance, \u201cThoughts from Father Faber on Kindness\u201d (19 September 1908) Part I, My Prayer Book: Happiness in Goodness<\/em>, New York: Benziger Bros., p. 66; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Aviator Amelia Earhart<\/strong><\/span> (1897-1937) is also credited by some modern sources as being the origin of the quote. Many Internet sources (and the unfortunate souls who cite from them) attribute Earhart\u2019s words to a June 2005 article in the Magic City Morning Star<\/em> newspaper. We’re certain that the phrase did not originate with Earhart, however — even the paraphrased versions of Faber\u2019s quote were in wide circulation when Earhart was just a teenager.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e52330-7015″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Church address]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make fresh tress, and the rapidity of the growth is equal to its extent. But this fertility is not confined to ourselves, or to others who may be kind to the same person to whom we have been kind. It is chiefly to be found in the person himself whom we have benefited. This is the greatest work which kindness does to others, that it makes them kind themselves.<\/span> The kindest men are generally those who have received the greatest number of kindnesses.\u201d (p. 12)<\/p>\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured \u2013 Original Faber quote<\/strong><\/span>]: Spiritual Conferences<\/em> (1859) via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/a580835700fabeuoft#page\/n29\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong> [1908 Sheedy requote]<\/span>: \u201cAn Act of Kindness Never Dies but Extends the Waves of Its Influence Over Breadth of Centurers\u201d (19 July 1908) The Pittsburgh Post<\/em> via Newspapers.com [subscription service]: https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/86544515<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong> [1910 Sheedy requote]<\/span>: \u201cThoughtfulness for Fellow Man Fills the World with Melody\u201d (18 September 1910) The Pittsburgh Post<\/em> via Newspapers.com [subscription service]: https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/87638473<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong> [1908 Lasance paraphrase]<\/span>: My Prayer Book: Happiness in Goodness<\/em> (1908) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=GgJFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=Kindness+is+infectious.+One+kind+action+leads+to+another.+Our+example+is+followed.+This+is+the+greatest+work+which+kindness+does+to+others<\/a><\/p>\n

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Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Frederick Faber <\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n