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 also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Out of this devotion he translated St. Though he was a Roman Catholic writing for fellow Catholics at that point many of his hymns today are sung by Protestant congregations. Within weeks they had begun construction on a new Church of St.

(28 June 1814 — 26 September 1863) was a noted English hymn writer and theologian who converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic priesthood. His best known work is Faith of Our Fathers. Frederick William Faber C.