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Quotes from Growth in Holiness — Frederick William Faber

1814–1863 England

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Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Growth in Holiness (1855)

Words cannot tell the abhorrence nature has of the piecemeal captivity of little constraints. And as to little temptations, I can readily conceive a man having the grace to be roasted over a slow fire for our dearest Mother's Immaculate Conception or the Pope's Supremacy, who would not have the grace to keep his temper in a theological conversation on either of these points of the Catholic faith.

Growth in Holiness (1855)

Is the amount of scrupulous attention which 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?

Growth in Holiness (1855)

How are we to overcome temptations? Cheerfulness is the first thing, cheerfulness the second, and cheerfulness the third. The devil is chained. He can bark, but he cannot bite, unless we go up to him and let him do so.

Growth in Holiness (1855)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frederick William Faber (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.