Frederick William Faber Quotes

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

The preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni.

The white race seems to me to blame in saying that all the reason for its interference in Africa is the improvement of the native African, and then to start on altering African institutions without in the least understanding them. It seems to me that the leading men among the European educated Africans have depended too much on the religious side of the question.

[W]e can be certain that, though preached to more than fifty years, if they [the Aztecs] were now left alone, if the Spanish nation were not to intercede, I am certain that in less than fifty years there would be no trace of the preaching which has been done for them.

Either these people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break out in a reign of terror such as this country has never known,

I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.