Frederick William Robertson Quotes
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.
He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.
That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.