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• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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  Education, Children, Science

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.271

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• There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

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  Hypocrisy, Three, World

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• 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.

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  Love, Two, Perfect

  Frederick William ROBERTSON (Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton.) (1859). “Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians”, p.118

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• We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Winning, Conquer

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.252

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• 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.

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  Men, Liberty, Shrinking

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.362

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• There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

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  Thinking Of You, Thinking About You, Past

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.436

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• The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

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  Strong, Prayer, Mean

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.34

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• Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.

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  Thinking, Voice, May

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.304

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• We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

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  Men, Rights, Forever

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• In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

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  Failure, Sacrifice, Long

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• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

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  Wise, Men, Honor

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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• 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.

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  Dream, Blood, Names

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.94

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• The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

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  Mother, Eye, Son

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.23

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• Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

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  Lying, Self, Class

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.350

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• False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

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  Men, Names, People

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• Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

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  Jesus, Thinking, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.22

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• If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

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  Character, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons”, p.189

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• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

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  Prayer, Wish, Praying

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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• Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

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  Done, Action, Life Is

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.225

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• 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.

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  Hate, Hypocrisy, Hatred

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• It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.

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  Son, Order, Principles

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• 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.

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  Covering, Charity, Earth

  Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.272, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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• That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

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  Prayer, Passionate Desire, Expectations

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.33

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• The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you.

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  Men, Mind, Charm

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.176

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• Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.

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  Hands, Issues, Life And Death

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons”, p.44

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