Success Quote by Frederick William Faber

A line like this doesn’t argue; it recruits. Faber’s “They always win who side with God” is built as a comfort sentence with a soldier’s cadence, turning theology into strategy: pick the right banner and the outcome is settled. “Always” does the heavy lifting. It erases contingency, tragedy, and the long, messy record of the righteous losing in public while clinging to victory in private. The phrase isn’t naïve so much as tactical: it relocates the scoreboard.

That relocation is the subtext. “Win” here is intentionally elastic, meant to survive bad news. If you’re defeated politically, sick, impoverished, mocked, you can still be winning in the only register that counts: eternity, conscience, fidelity. It’s a pressure-release valve for believers living in a modernizing 19th-century Britain where old certainties were being interrogated by industrial upheaval, scientific confidence, and a shifting religious marketplace. Faber, a Victorian Catholic convert and hymn-writer, specialized in devotional language that could steady a shaken inner life without conceding the cultural fight.

The line also carries a quiet edge. “Side with God” implies there are sides, and you can identify them. That’s galvanizing, but it’s also morally risky: once you assume God is on your team, opponents become not merely wrong but adversarial to the divine. The charm of the aphorism is its simplicity; the danger is the same. It offers certainty as solace, and it can slide, almost seamlessly, into certainty as permission.