Quote #11
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
More from Frederick Willaim Faber
- Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
- They always win who side with God.
- 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…
- Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
- For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.
- Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.
- The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.
- O majesty unspeakable and dread! Wert thou less mighty than Thou art, Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief, Too little for our heart.